Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I photocopied several hundred pages of my school's textbook because I didn't want to buy it. My school later says to just buy it and it will be reimbursed. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I received a package that I thought contained a textbook for law school, for which I paid $130 used. Instead, I received a paperback novel titled "The Nosy Neighbor" by Fern Michaels. My semester starts next week. FML
Today, I asked my professor what happened to the assignment I gave him several weeks ago. Turns out he lost it, and graded me zero as a result. Now if I want a mark, he says I'll have to hand-write it all over again, but that I "probably shouldn't bother," because it was "a bit shit, really." FML
Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I was taking the final exam for one of my classes. The teacher came over to my desk, grabbed my test and ripped it in half. Then he grabbed my hand and read the note I had written on it to remind myself to pay rent. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I found out that my entire class, me included, has to rewrite the painfully difficult midterm we wrote last week. All this because the Professor left the exams strewn across her desk. The cleaners thought it was trash and disposed of them. FML
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littlemonster94 15
You can't trust the system! Throw it on the ground! Okay, I'm sorry.
Catkam623 27
Buy it, then take a picture of every page, put it on the Internet charge 1$ for an acc. Make money.
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alfred07 18
Or you could email this story to the daily mirror.
efrainelboricua 12
Government budget cuts must affect him badly. At least he improvised.
KaskStunter 4
I am pretty sure this is illegal. Does the book have an ISBN? Did he gave you a receipt?
kpo1991 10
Unfortunately lecturers do that. My friend's a Management student and her lecturer made his class buy a book for £100 that he had written. The cover photo was a picture of one of the accommodation blocks on campus.
RaulGarcia30 10
Down with the system!!!!
TheyCallMeDamien 18
THAT IS STRAIGHT BULLSHIT! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! Turn the book over to a harsh critic then send the critique to the faculty. Or photocopy the book for your fellow students. Or turn it into a pdf so fellow and future students can download it for free. Your teacher is a douche for doing that.
LolCandy 27
The Alberta Teacher code of conduct states: "The teacher may not take advantage of a professional position to profit from the sale of goods or services to or for pupils in the teacher's charge." Check out your code of conduct for where you live, who knows; maybe you'll be able to charge them with something. Don't trust the teachers that said it's legal, they may be doing the same thing.
jonnyscash 12
Take that book and hit him in his face. That may teach him a lesson. Ha!
clokwrkpig 6
Really sorry to hear this. It seems really dodgy. The closest we had to a lecturer doing this was having a list of books, including some he authored. However, if you bought one, he wanted you to take it to him, and he would sign it (so he knew he had processed it) and give you his $4 royalty back- he didn't believe a lecturer should profit from his students.
mkcherry 14
My math teacher also authored the book for her course but the homework assigned from the book and the practice sections were nearly identical to the test so it was worth buying the book! It was also professionally published, peer-reviewed, and nicely produced.