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
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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 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 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 turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, after waiting two weeks for an email with my online textbook access code, it still hadn't arrived in time for my quiz tomorrow, so I ended up spending most of my money on the expensive physical copy. Not long after I got back home, the email finally arrived. FML
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. 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 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, after having too many projects for end of term, I asked to borrow my sister's paper that she used for the same class last year. After submitting it online, I found the example paper that the teacher handed out. My teacher used my sister's paper from last year as an example for us. FML
Today, my son got expelled after using the photocopier to photocopy his penis. He then used the copies to replace every directional arrow posted throughout the school. FML
Today, a student's parent yelled at me because they had to pay for school equipment their son had stolen from my desk. Apparently, it's my fault because the item was just too tempting for him not to steal. FML
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m0tl3ycru3 0
Way to go tree killer!
UpsideDownTurtle 6
Bind the photocopied pages together and sell it to the next un-informed student for cheaper.
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sidkid008 0
Lol wow
lajaynay 15
Oh well. There isn't shit you can do about it now. You made it, so use it. You can write notes and shit on your copy at least.
zom_fml 10
Wouldn't it be even more expensive to copy every page than to just, well, buy the thing in the first place?
sailorgirl16 0
Only if you werent using your own copier
riack 2
Or do what I do and buy the international edition. Almost always the exact same thing except paperback and lower quality paper. Oh, and it's about 90% cheaper typically. Did that with my calc 2 textbook that costed 210 and paid 20 for the international edition
Mauskau 36
Why the hell are textbooks so expensive for you guys? Max £30 for any in the uk
jesikalovesyou 0
They will give you less than you paid. I bought a book for $150 and they gave me five bucks for it.
ms_YoungMula 8
That's just plain dumb
Cmdr_Shepard 17
That's how college bookstores make their money: Pay people next to nothing for their books and then turn around and sell the books for 4-5 times of the buyback. They make tons of money off ignorant students who have no idea how to shop or sell books. For a student like me that's cash-strapped, the internet is a god-send. I buy and sell all of my textbooks on Amazon.com and I get way more money from Amazon than the bookstore. Textbooks cost half as much on Amazon than a normal bookstore. Even though Amazon gives you a gift card instead of cash, I can turn around and use the gift cards to buy new books. Win-win situation for me.
unmistakablyamaz 4
Why not just buy the book? You can usually find slightly used books in good condition for cheaper, unless it is a brand new book. Either way, it looks better and is much easier to keep up with than a bunch of copied pages... I'd pay the extra cost just for convenience!
SirSquishyPants 1
And if your lucky the previous owner had the same teacher and highlighted all the important crap.
shoopd 19
*you're Just because you claim to be a spelling Nazi...
monster_tamer 11
Technically, that was an issue of grammatical understanding.
hummingbirdheart 5
Who does that?
SabyLuvsYuu 1
Op does that.
luvliidee21 5
well.. u have the book for free either way. keep the copies since u already have them!
dhiran_singh 16
You basically just palgerized the entire book by makin' several hundereds of copies... Next better next time.....
pdHbq 2
Two things... One: They made one copy of several hundred pages Two: Next better next time?
shoopd 19
Maybe you should "palgerize" a dictionary. This way you can learn the correct spelling AND definition of plagiarize, since you were way off with both.
docscientist 10
No, he's write 49, op signed every page as his own.
DFlit1 0
Ur so cheap Jews think ur too stingy
pdp_fml 21
Never mind the trees, they will grow back. My question is why didn't the school administration inform the students like you that that book would be reimbursed?