College Sucks

[Rinaun]

Hah, thats like, my health and wellness fee. Lol so hard @ 400 tuition. Not even my community college was that low.

So update for today, just sent out so many emails I feel like a digital tramp. PLEASE LET ME IN YO CLASSES I PROMISE NOT TO DROP PLSSSSSS SSSSssSSSss JUST A HIT BABY.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

You can do that if a used book is available for purchase. I've looked for used books in the past with no luck.

The problem is they change the material in the text books so you need to buy it new.

Also, most students don't want to be seen with a used book. They want to look fresh. New clothes, new iPhone, new books, and a hot car.

Well my college lists the edition that we have to buy. So I look up the ISBN and then buy it.

Sometimes, there are books that are brand new or editions, which I will have to buy at full price. D:

 

[Ns1]

Well my college lists the edition that we have to buy. So I look up the ISBN and then buy it.

Sometimes, there are books that are brand new or editions, which I will have to buy at full price. D:

protip: you don't have to buy it

 

[Rinaun]

protip: you don't have to buy it

I really don't get why people get all butthurt over books. Unless its a brand new this semester book, there is ZERO point to buy a hard copy of the book. Almost always you can find someone willing to let you use their copy, or find a copy online/ebook version.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

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

lol.

 

[Rinaun]

Update to this post.

So I signed up for my classes the following semester, right? Come to find out today, a week after registration opened, that one of my main classes is being removed due to inaccuracy in some administrational funding stuff. So now they just dropped my class, and left me with ZERO alternatives. I went to an adviser and they told me to fucking deal with it. I'm not sure how to respond to them when I followed their instructions and they suddenly pull the rug out from underneath me.

This is why college is ruining this country, folks. People like me just want to learn, and yet we can't because every time we try we get some sad sob story about how someone else fucked up and how everyone is so sorry for our situation. The adivser bitch had the nerve to tell me to wait until next semester because "it always gets better".

Needless to say I had a massive drink when I got home. Fuck SJSU, I hope russia nukes that school if we do go WW3 while nobody is on campus. No loss in my mind. I'd love to know if there is anything productive I can do regarding this issue: newspapers? media? lawyer (doubt it)? I mean they literally removed the class but you can still sign up for it. It makes zero sense.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You go to a shitty, underfunded degree mill. Like most people.

I remember dealing with the same thing and ending up burning through electives whenever I couldn't get into full classes. Or else ending up with only 9 credits for a semester's worth or tuition. Then there were the upper level classes with prerequisites only being offered one semester a year. Just one of the reasons many people take five years to graduate and often finish their last semester or two taking a single class.

Then there were the lower level classes taught by grad students. From India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Slovenia... who were barely understandable. At least the class sizes were small. Some of those ended up being the best classes I took, as the instructors were often very smart and enthusiastic, unlike the tired old profs who just wanted to hurry up and retire. And the lower level classes with the real professors with class sizes that often numbered 200 students or more.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Update to this post.

So I signed up for my classes the following semester, right? Come to find out today, a week after registration opened, that one of my main classes is being removed due to inaccuracy in some administrational funding stuff. So now they just dropped my class, and left me with ZERO alternatives. I went to an adviser and they told me to fucking deal with it. I'm not sure how to respond to them when I followed their instructions and they suddenly pull the rug out from underneath me.

This is why college is ruining this country, folks. People like me just want to learn, and yet we can't because every time we try we get some sad sob story about how someone else fucked up and how everyone is so sorry for our situation. The adivser bitch had the nerve to tell me to wait until next semester because "it always gets better".

Needless to say I had a massive drink when I got home. Fuck SJSU, I hope russia nukes that school if we do go WW3 while nobody is on campus. No loss in my mind. I'd love to know if there is anything productive I can do regarding this issue: newspapers? media? lawyer (doubt it)? I mean they literally removed the class but you can still sign up for it. It makes zero sense.

too bored to read the previous pages, but whats wrong with spreading it out another semester? Worst you can do is get a part time job during it due to the free time to help pay some bills amirite?

 

[Mai72]

I really don't get why people get all butthurt over books. Unless its a brand new this semester book, there is ZERO point to buy a hard copy of the book. Almost always you can find someone willing to let you use their copy, or find a copy online/ebook version.

Shiny new books make you look cool.

 

[Mai72]

Go to ITT?

 

[Sonikku]

But, that magic piece of paper opens up doors to job opportunities for the rest of your life

ha.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I really don't get why people get all butthurt over books. Unless its a brand new this semester book, there is ZERO point to buy a hard copy of the book. Almost always you can find someone willing to let you use their copy, or find a copy online/ebook version.

Depends on the course. I tried this my sophomore year with Dynamics (within a 17 credit schedule) and ended up having to drop the course because I could not keep up. Having to borrow books from other people can be a pain because then you're studying on their time and not your own. That was the only course in my 4 year engineering curriculum I had to drop. But for certain other courses (those early "GPA boosting" electives) I just never bought the books.

Normally I am against pirating. But book prices have reached the point where I'm going to say if you can get an electronic copy for free, or get the paperback black and white India version for 70% less, go for it. The amount that is charged for college students that don't have the money to begin with is absurd.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

hah, the college I graduated from constructed a new building for biology students, and the first floor lecture halls had the MOST UNCOMFORTABLE SEATING EVER. It just so happens I had 3 classes in the same lecture hall in a row...
On a related note, the upstairs lab rooms had really great chairs.

transfers were annoying. Some of my classes didn't transfer correctly, probably because I was intending on going to a UC, but ended up going to a CSU
I had to take a "dumbed-down" biology calculus class, even though I'd already taken 2 semesters worth of actual Calculus. I was 30 minutes late for that class once because I couldn't find parking. There was a test that day, and I still got one of the highest scores on it hah.
I also slept a lot in some classes. One of the teachers joked about it.

The CSU system is just a bunch of community college that charge too much. But a bit of paper is a bit of paper, so i suppose that's all that matters.

Fuck SJSU,

Yep; I'll add it to CSU Monterey bay, CSU Chico State, and CSU Stanislaus as places that i've heard horrendous things about.

 

[Belegost]

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.

Seriously, does no one know this? And if the library doesn't have it you just go to the professor and have him add it, the library will get it in within a couple days.

You can do that if a used book is available for purchase. I've looked for used books in the past with no luck.

The problem is they change the material in the text books so you need to buy it new.

Also, most students don't want to be seen with a used book. They want to look fresh. New clothes, new iPhone, new books, and a hot car.

Well students should stop f^&*ing worrying about how new the book is and focus on kicking ass in grades.

Further, the material that changes in text books is the problem sections, not the actual content, because the material covered in undergrad courses is not changing - basic calculus has been pretty fixed for a couple centuries. There's not much changing about intro chemistry, or physics.

So, if you feel the need to have a book to study from, get the used one, especially one revision out of date (which is cheap as hell because all your idiot peers are buying the new one like good little sheep) this is perfectly good for reading and getting concept understanding. Then just go to the library and photocopy(smartphone picture) the problem section to do the homework.


I paid less than $100/quarter on books (and that was 7 years ago, not particularly different than today) got good study habits by spending regular time in the library, and kicked ass on the grades because of it.

 

[doubledeluxe]

Sounds like SJSU sucks.

If you're a transfer student odds are you need 9 units of electives. Take those.