Excuse me if I seem a little dazed right now...
I have a son who will be a junior at college this year...today, we sat down to order his books online before he left to go move into the dorm.
See this?
Total : $877.63
THIS is the total amount due for his books. This is for 15 credit hours...and for 41 books.
Seriously?
THAT is absolutely ridiculous. Forty-one books??!!! Almost $900???!!!
Now, excuse me while I go faint.
Peace.
5 comments:
Welcome to college life. Wait until you start checking out all the fees: lab fee, student activity fee, and on and on and on...
That's ridiculous. Time for a letter to the college president. Outrageous.
That is insane! My husband works at a university and they are starting a book rental system. It will save the kids/parents a lot of cash.
That *is* insane. Aren't any of them "optional"? Seems to be there were required texts and suggested or optional texts, yes? No? Crazy.
Holy cow, that's crazy! The most I ever spent -- as a lit major in college -- was around $450. But there are ways to shave money off that total... Buy used whenever possible. Check out Amazon once you have the book list for deals. I got a majority of my lit books from the public library when I got smart and decided to look there. (Around my junior year.)
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