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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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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viper8608 9
my teacher made his own textbook as well. it was pretty sweet because it involved everything in the class so super easy to study. stop being a douchebag and use the freaking book
fwongraven 10
Once I had an exam question consisting of a published quotation BY THE MODULE LEADER and asking us to agree or disagree with it. A bit awkward! I've had a module where the lecturer wrote the textbook too, but he was the genuine article. He did recommend that we buy the hardback so he'd get more money XD
Cilleemaan 4
While it is not criminal fraud it is "conflict of interest" and "abuse of power" which are an ethical failure. If the school is state-run it might also be "abuse of public office." Don't expect his co-workers to cave in and admit they're corrupt. I think you should go public on it. 1. Send a press release and letter to the editor of your local papers. 2. Email journalists who write one educational matters. Mention the buzz words "conflict of interest" and either "abuse of power" or "abuse of public office" which ever applies.
Moe2311 2
Don't take it up with the school, take it up with a Lawyer. If it's really such a piece of **** that isn't good regarding the subject maybe you can get him and the school in a bit of trouble for harming your education. AND if the school is telling you to just drop it don't (though you may wanna start finding another school if you do get them in trouble) but if what they're doing really is wrong I feel they do deserve to get into trouble.
DarkskyFML 5
You should not be attending Frank's University.
pkmntrainer017 8
had to buy my wife's books for her college classes. same thing. its not right!
metal01 6
Same problem in my psychology class.
bookwormgoddess 14
If it is not officially published they can't charge you for it.
fantasyworld 39
I had the teacher write the textbook for my Technology and Society class. It was just a bunch of stories that had nothing to do with the class.
EwahWeeWah 21
£150 For a college book??? I had no idea college books were so expensive... how can they charge so much for that shit??? You could probably print that online for free... This stuff is getting out of hand.