College Sucks

[Rinaun]

First week of classes and as a transfer student from a community college, I have so far 1 unit out of the 12 I need. Being a transfer student meant that I couldn't sign up with everyone else, so now I'm totally fucked on classes. I spent probably all of Monday and Tuesday crashing classes. What is even more comical is that the CSU (SJSU) wants me to pay over $1500 in tuition fees when I have a single unit class. My total fees for one semester with ONE class is 2.5k$. Our major is over-impacted, which means SJSU took in too many students (shocking, right?).

Today, I get to spend ever more time dealing with DMV 2.0 in hopes of getting a fancy piece of paper that employers so desperately want to see. I have to go down to the financial aid department and find out if financial aid even applies still; if it doesnt, I'm probably going to be not attending this semester and will look at a better, non-shitty college like East Bay or Monterey.

TLDR, college sucks.

 

[Kaido]

Yup. I think I'm averaging nearly $700 a semester just in books these days. What a racket.

But, that magic piece of paper opens up doors to job opportunities for the rest of your life, so that's the game we play.

 

[purbeast0]

after my sophomore year i realized that buying all books wasn't even necessary. i think my senior year i didn't buy 1 book in my last semester.

 

[PliotronX]

after my sophomore year i realized that buying all books wasn't even necessary. i think my senior year i didn't buy 1 book in my last semester.

+1, so far in four semesters I have bought two books and downloaded the rest in PDF.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Ah, college.

The place I went to and took seriously for 2 years. The last 2, I rarely cracked open any of the expensive books I bought and did far better in grades when I did.

 

[manimal]

cheap price to pay to have access to all that poontang!

 

[nageov3t]

after my sophomore year i realized that buying all books wasn't even necessary. i think my senior year i didn't buy 1 book in my last semester.

yeah, I got burned hard freshman year when I spent like $200 on a textbook that the professor ended up never even using.

after that, I only bought books once the prof actually starts using them (and if at all possible, used via ebay/amazon... buying a book that's an edition behind can often save you LOTS of money, at the expense of maybe having one extra typo in the text)

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

You should go to Texas Southern.... I heard that's the bomb... yo...werd


But srsly. My college was helluva good investment. It got me where I am today so I can't say I have any qualms.

 

[NutBucket]

SJSU...problem found.

 

[Imp]

after my sophomore year i realized that buying all books wasn't even necessary. i think my senior year i didn't buy 1 book in my last semester.

Sariouslly....

I bought a few $100+ textbooks that were almost never used. But the concern that I wouldn't have a reference scared me into getting them.

Don't ever forget that the education industry is business, just like charities.

 

[Sonikku]

yeah, I got burned hard freshman year when I spent like $200 on a textbook that the professor ended up never even using.

after that, I only bought books once the prof actually starts using them (and if at all possible, used via ebay/amazon... buying a book that's an edition behind can often save you LOTS of money, at the expense of maybe having one extra typo in the text)

When I was in college the professors would write their own book and require it for their class so they could double dip off teaching at the college. What's more, most of them changed just a small part of it each year so you could only buy the new edition and couldn't sell your used last year's edition nor buy an upperclassman's used edition.

 

[mmntech]

Oh man, I have stacks of books still in my basement that "I needed" but never read.

Two things I learned too late on my university career 1) buy all your books online, and 2) buy used texts as often as possible.

This one book I had to buy for college I found on Amazon for $50 less (IIRC) than it was at the school's book shop. The other advantage to buying online is you don't have to wait in line like an idiot at the University Book Store. First week of class was always a nightmare. The line would snake through the stacks and out into the hall. You'd be waiting almost an hour just to get inside. Then another line to pay. Awful.

As for buying used, the profs always say don't do it because editions go through major changes each year. Lol, no they don't. A lot of profs write texts in the off season so they have a vested interest in making sure fresh copies get sold every semester. In the event that this is a significant change, you can probably just grab the book at the library and photocopy what you need.

 

[rednas]

I went to SJSU and I am glad I graduated already and dont have to deal with all the BS current students have to deal with.

 

[rednas]

You should go to Texas Southern.... I heard that's the bomb... yo...werd


But srsly. My college was helluva good investment. It got me where I am today so I can't say I have any qualms.

hahahhhaahah oddly enough I went to SJSU and was thinking of going to texas southern. Mainly cuz its cheap and I live like 10 miles away.

 

[Sattern]

You might have a better time at College once you actually get in and become an active member of the community.

The planning process for schools drived me crazy, but once I got in I loved it.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

hahahhhaahah oddly enough I went to SJSU and was thinking of going to texas southern. Mainly cuz its cheap and I live like 10 miles away.

Thinking of going to Texas Southern because you saw the commercials/billboards? Then went on campus to look around and realized what it was and quickly did a 360 and started doing backsteps while :whiste: ?


:biggrin: :awe:

 

[rednas]

Thinking of going to Texas Southern because you saw the commercials/billboards? Then went on campus to look around and realized what it was and quickly did a 360 and started doing backsteps while :whiste: ?


:biggrin: :awe:

I have not actually seen the commercials for it. I am thinking of going there for the same exact reasons I went to SJSU. Its cheap (I am able to pay for it with my regular income) and its close (about 10 miles from where I live) the fact that its an HBU in the third ward does not matter to me in any way.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

+1, so far in four semesters I have bought two books and downloaded the rest in PDF.

Yup after freshman year I stopped buying books. For the rare occasion that I did need it, the library actually carries them in stock but no one ever uses the library for books anymore lol.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Anyone who doesn't like college is doing it wrong. It costs a lot of money, but there are drugs and alcohol everywhere, basically everybody is trying to get laid (which makes finding a willing partner very easy), and if you get in trouble, you're given essentially no punishment. Oh, you got wasted, went skinny dipping in the fountain and peed in the quad, and this all happened at noon? Run along and sleep it off you scamp! Beer pong tonight!

Seriously, I was a total nerd in college, and I still had more threeways while enrolled than since... $160,000 well spent!

 

[Ns1]

to be clear, your college sucks.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

after my sophomore year i realized that buying all books wasn't even necessary. i think my senior year i didn't buy 1 book in my last semester.

Back when I was in grad school in the mid 90s, I bought a book for object-oriented design. This POS book was paperback and was like 1/4" thick and they charged me $53 (this was in 1995, IIRC). There was no way I was paying that so I bought the book, spent $5 or $6 copying it, and then returned it. When I returned it, the person at the bookstore couldn't believe they'd charge that much for a book and had to check because she thought I switched the price tag!

As it turned out, copying that book was the smartest thing I did, since we NEVER USED THE DAMN THING.

 

[ponyo]

cheap price to pay to have access to all that poontang!

I don't know about that. $20-30k a year buys you lot of poontang in Asia, South America, and Europe.

 

[Josh123]

You don't even have to buy your books. A lot of places allow you to rent them like Amazon. Plus I'm pretty sure they ship you prepaid boxes to send them back when it gets closer to the end of the semester.

 

[DrPizza]

Why didn't you know to enroll in classes as soon as possible? I have students in high school, who long before they've graduated in June, have already made out their schedules for the fall semester. Sounds more like you waited too long to make out a schedule. That is, for this current semester that you're now in, my high school students were making out schedules for last May.

Seriously, I was a total nerd in college, and I still had more threeways while enrolled than since... $160,000 well spent!

I hate to disappoint you, but you, your left hand, and your right hand do NOT constitute a 3-way.

 

[Rinaun]

cheap price to pay to have access to all that poontang!

So truth.

Why didn't you know to enroll in classes as soon as possible? I have students in high school, who long before they've graduated in June, have already made out their schedules for the fall semester. Sounds more like you waited too long to make out a schedule. That is, for this current semester that you're now in, my high school students were making out schedules for last May.

Well no, this wasn't me or my fault. Transfers aren't allowed to register for classes until pretty late, and on top of that, SJSU lost 2 transcript copies. By July 10th all the classes were full, and being an AA-T transfer means I don't need any side elective credits or the such. If my transcript had not of been lost I could have registered in mid-June. Also, keep in mind that while crashing over 8 classes, 22 students from my major were trying to add in almost every class. Classes at SJSU are notoriously impacted and if I didn't live close I'd for sure think about attending another uni.

to be clear, your college sucks.

I think anyone who has ever been to SJSU knows how retarded this place can get financially/bureaucratically. I don't get why people from out of state want to attend this place .