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
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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, my first day of college, the textbooks I ordered a month in advance still haven't arrived. My first class of the semester is College Readiness. 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 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 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 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
Today, the first day of school, I went to the book store to purchase my textbooks. Not only did I wait for 30 minutes, but they didn’t even have my books in stock. I was advised to visit another campus 45 minutes away. They didn’t have it either. I have assignments due already. 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, 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, I lost a book. I'd used my credit card as a bookmark. FML
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Top comments
TxKitten79 10
Yep. welcome to college. Take some advice... never buy new if you can help it. Google "buy used textbooks." You can save 50% or more on a lot of books by not buying new from the bookstore.
smartjaguargurl 17
Oh honey just wait. Welcome to college
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Comments (21)
Clovis 2
I had that shit happen to me when I was in college. Its more common than it should be
TxKitten79 10
Yep. welcome to college. Take some advice... never buy new if you can help it. Google "buy used textbooks." You can save 50% or more on a lot of books by not buying new from the bookstore.
smartjaguargurl 17
Bookfinder.com is a lifesaver
TxKitten79 10
yep, and textbookrush.com, chegg.com, textbooks.com, etc
kayakninja 6
It's probably an "updated version" that changed the numbers on 3 review questions so you can't use the old one anymore.
smartjaguargurl 17
Oh honey just wait. Welcome to college
rockninja 21
i really dont understand why they cant just be, idk, nice? textbooks cost already a shit ton if a money and they just wont the their job as well?
kfchicken 31
because they don't care about any student and they know they can do whatever they want without any consequences
LadyRen 20
Where did you buy it from? Double check if you selected “lose leaf” because that’s what you got. Just get a cheap binder and put it in there.
Takegami 22
Ah yes, college
RichardPencil 32
Then buy a nice $75 binder and you’ve got something special!
CoriCat 25
We’ve all been there bud
Nathanael Johnson 16
Welcome to college, you have one of those professors who fancies himself an author but no publishers agree
bewareimaninja 5
And they won’t buy it back. I have 3 still.