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Unread 05-01-2010, 04:56 PM   #11
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All I have to say is who the shit buys textbooks? For the one time they are needed you can just get them out of the library.
speak for yourself, I'm pretty sure my college library has an actual rule preventing stocking current textbooks just to force students into buying them.

Mind you, I just buy mine used for obscenely cheap prices, but still.
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Unread 05-01-2010, 06:51 PM   #12
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It's pretty important assuming your life is not simply where you work.
You mean College as a social expierience, or as an academic one?
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Unread 05-03-2010, 03:40 AM   #13
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speak for yourself, I'm pretty sure my college library has an actual rule preventing stocking current textbooks just to force students into buying them.

Mind you, I just buy mine used for obscenely cheap prices, but still.
That's pretty ridiculous. Our library had mountains of set texts and even if that ran out you could get them into short loan where ou get them out for 2 hours at a time so they always available. I assumed everywhere was fairly similiar.
Depends on the courses too I guess, there was reall yno need for textbooks in m courses.

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You mean College as a social expierience, or as an academic one?
Bit of both- as a general develop into a better, more wordly person sort of thing.
The most important thing I found about college was constantly being met with differing ideas and people that I would never meet anywhere else.
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Those are very intangible things though and experiences you could likely have without paying extraordinary amounts of money for what could end up having virtually no practical application in your life.
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What do you mean by practical application?
Cause if you mean getting a job and making money, no college isn't worth it. That's fairly well documented.
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I decided a long time ago that I'm not going to college. Since my parents are military I can get into any state school in CA or WA for free but I just don't care. All the stuff in this thread is just giving me more reason not to.
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What do you mean by practical application?
Cause if you mean getting a job and making money, no college isn't worth it. That's fairly well documented.
Wouldn't it depend on the subject in question? My sister is a pharmacist. She studied pharmacology at university for four years, went straight from university to a job in a pharmacy and makes more money than her salesman husband who never went to uni. Not saying, he'd make more money if he had, just that the practical application of a job in science such as Pharmacy is pretty high.

I, on the other hand, am doing English, which has next to no practical application unless I go on and do a teaching post-grad course.
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It's pretty important assuming your life is not simply where you work.
It's pretty important if you suck at computers, same with libraries.
If the only way you seek mental advancement is to be babysat through it with a highly structured traintrack and a tutor then I'd suggest college. Or mushrooms.

Gotta remember fellas, these social prejudices were established pre-age-o'-information.
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I bought textbooks in 1st year because I was a sucker and thought you needed textbooks to do well in university.

Then I went 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, AND 6th years and I only bought ONE textbook. I saved about $3000 all told.

You don't need textbooks to do well, you need to pay attention in class and give a shit. ...And occasionally torrent some textbooks.
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Wouldn't it depend on the subject in question? My sister is a pharmacist. She studied pharmacology at university for four years, went straight from university to a job in a pharmacy and makes more money than her salesman husband who never went to uni. Not saying, he'd make more money if he had, just that the practical application of a job in science such as Pharmacy is pretty high.
I'm talking in general, on average.
Also while we are talking about science, I could earn more with my bachelors degree than I can with my pHD. Work that one out.
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