Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 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 had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
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
Today, I can’t even find a place to rent. Every place has dozens of applications, with several offering well over asking price. I just graduated from college. 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'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. FML
Today, at my job as a fourth grade teacher, I realized that most of my students have far nicer and more expensive phones than I can afford. FML
Today, after I just bought a house that is pretty good and suits all our needs for space, my in-laws moved in because they ran into financial troubles. Guess who is stuck with all the extra expenditures? FML
Today, I told my roommates they have to go get jobs, because I can't afford to support them or their bad habits any more. They responded by pawning all my DVDs for cash to buy cigarettes. FML
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Top comments
JMichael 26
Stay in college OP, and someday you could be one of those many people.
EternalTime 7
Those books will one day earn you a house
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Comments (113)
EgyptianPride98 8
I read a quote once that said something like "Each person you is fighting a battle you know nothing about." So don't judge, OP. You never know what's behind that rich exterior. But I do understand what you're going through...and it really does suck. FYL
zoegirl_455 30
They have multiple houses?! My god what college do you go to?
huh_life 8
It sucks but it gets better,money isn't everything!
Jessssuhh 17
When I was a kid, my parents invested in the property market. We bought houses, fixed them up and then resold them for profit. Then the market crashed. We had eleven properties, seven of them with houses on, and for a brief period my parents had to work nights at a fishery (gutting squid) as well as minimum wage day jobs to make it through the week. So not only is selling a house HARD WORK but maybe they are selling the house because of very unfortunate circumstance. I am too a poor university student these days, but your judgement is unnecessary.
RedPillSucks 33
This demonstrates #42s point. Not sure why either was down voted.
Nohman 14
It's better to be the underdog. You will work hard for success and develop great character doing so, whereas they will tend to take those things for granted.
cjlerch 29
Don't bother with envy, just brush it off. Stick to those books and you'll actually earn what they have, not get it the lazy way like they probably did.
hunts19ketchup 23
You have no idea whether or not they earned their money.
harinakshi 4
I understand OP. And it's not about envy at all. I had a coworker constantly complain about her life, you know, her house was so big it took forever to clean, the trees in her backyard shaded the pool and made it too cold, she had to take two vacations to Vegas right after her Reno getaway. Meanwhile I was a single mom living in a one bedroom apt with little other than ketchup and milk in my fridge. And when I was laid off she told me she wished she could stay at home, too. But I never envied her, she was stuck up and would obviously never enjoy her luck, I learned to be grateful of what I accomplished.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
100 $ for a textbook... Why is it that in the US, education is considered as a privilege instead of a basic right?
Jabberwockyy 13
To tell the truth, $100 for a textbook isn't that bad compared to some of them.
TheDrifter 24
Education is a right. College degrees on the other hand are unnecessary for the vast majority of jobs and are viewed as a necessity only by entrenched academia, unfamiliar with how the rest of society functions.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
Education becomes a privilege when it is that obnoxiously expensive. 100$ for a textbook and this not even being the most expensive one is just ridiculous. Education should be accessible to anyone who wants it and will study hard to achieve it. It shouldn't be a matter of who can or cannot afford it, who can tie themselves to extremely expensive loans or wasting time in dead end part time jobs.
fantasyworld 39
Whoever set the whole college system up is a bastard.
Harrison38 5
im sorry... keep your head up
worldclassrager 41
Look around online you can find them cheeper on eBay or Amazon...or if it comes to it take out a loan...