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Why university sucks
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:12:21
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Enormous bill is enormous.
Note: I may still have to buy another $180 book on top of this. lol


Enormous book is also enormous.

Well it's 2 books bundled together, but the black one is the size of at least two normal textbooks stacked. Too lazy to do a real comparison.

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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:19:09
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Found my receipt from last semester after scanning this, it was $737.89 for 5 books.

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:28:59
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Canadian Income Tax Act with Regulations, Annotated

Sounds riveting.

Wait... does that say 86th edition?
Edited: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:29:58

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:32:13
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My god.

Thankfully, I'm an arts student, so we don't need expensive books...but I find them useless.

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:18:27
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Pfft, my books are bigger!

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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:00:57
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can't you normally buy used textbooks?  hope you can at least sell them on at the end of your course.  or are you saving them as reference books?

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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:02:19
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Yes you can buy used textbooks but normally you need the current edition (which changes every year) or all the assigned question numbers, etc will not match. Plus I think they don't start selling used books until a week later and my teacher was already yelling at people today who hadn't read the first 2 chapters (80 pages) by today and it was only the second class.

When you sell used textbooks you'll probably only get 10% of the original value, so I dunno for me it's better just to keep them... even though all the drawers in my room are beginning to fill with notes and textbooks.

If nothing else I'll have a big professional bookshelf at some point.

If I end up working for some established company I'll probably never look at them again, but if I happen to start my own business or something it could be a somewhat valuable resource.
Edited: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:21

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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:19:29
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Library?

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