$250 from 5 donations? Textbooks must’ve gotten a lot cheaper since I went to college if you can get them with that kind of money.
Oblivion
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stankmut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Edge004@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They’re just as expensive still, plus depending on your college, you may have to pay for online access codes for your homework on top of textbooks
Fortunately, pdfs of textbooks are usually pretty easy to find
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Wait what? Don’t book usually come in a physical copy that has (usually on the back) a code for the digital one? It’s different in the USA? That’s bullshit
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
usually its the required access that cant be pirated. beats buying the book. thats what i did.
Skylordd78@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A place near me is doing $800 for 8 donations
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they will suck you dry before giving you money.
UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Count me in, baby!
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s why back home we can not legally be compensated for donating blood or plasma. But you usually get some Sandwich and Coffee or something else to drink afterwards, which is nice.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this a US thing where curriculums are based on basically one book? Here in germany, often professors just put together their own presentation slides and make them available for the students. The material in the slides of course is based losely on one or more books, but u don’t really need to read or let alone purchase those books. Also, aren’t university libraries a thing in the US? We can get a lot of digital copies of books legitimately for free.
And what majors require u to even read specific books? I did my major in electrical engineering, and there are so many books and even YouTube videos explaining a lot of stuff for free. I mean the mathematics and the physical laws are always the same, so it’s not like they change from book to book.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m a lecturer for a University where all courses are required to have a mandatory textbook that is sold at the University book store.
The thing is, most of the time the book isn’t actually necessary - we just have to tell the students in code. When I tell students that a textbook is mandatory as a required supplement to the materials that will be provided in lecture and online, it’s code for “Don’t buy that shit - they’re making me say it’s mandatory.”
When I was in school, I also had a professor who had written a mandatory textbook, but it was printed on the cheap, spiral-bound, and he didn’t take a commission on its sale, so it was like $12.
But there are also evil professors. I had a professor of American History in college who had a “mandatory” textbook he had written and said would be included in all the exams and that he would not cover it in lectures. The book turned out to be about an art movement in 1920s Mexico (his doctorate was in Mexican history), and not a page of it was actually relevant to the course or included in the exams. He just wanted to make extra money off the students.
janonymous@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had one prof here in Germany that did this as well. It was his own book. He was adamant that everyone taking his class had to get the latest version, upgrading it every semester.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Grifters gonna grift.
Probably makes MUCH more money forcing his book on students than he does teaching.
Unless you mean that he provided it to his students for free. In which case, good on him! 😁
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
in k-12, its usually based one book, that almost never changes edition, or very little.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That’s not what donating means…
dragginupagain@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s a loophole for laws on selling body parts. You can’t sell the plasma so you donate the plasma and they pay you for the time it takes to collect, which to be fair is a hell of a lot longer than collecting blood.
alanjaow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Possibly “donation” because the payment isn’t guaranteed?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Company?? This is getting too much. I thought it was a public service.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I lived off of Plasma money for eight years in my 20s. Donated twice a week every week for eight years and paid my rent.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Given what hospitals charge for the same, you literally were a cash cow for american healthcare…
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Some of the Plasma donated gets turned into high-end cosmetics.
nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
My country has relaxed laws on piracy, so we had almost no books in our university, teachers just sent up pirated PDFs in a group chat
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately a lot of the fucking publishers are getting aware of this fact and they’re doing one-time codes now
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Most of the subjects they teach, at a college level, have not changed in decades…
If a teacher wants to use the “latest” in Shakespearean literature - that’s 100% a choice…
UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I didn’t buy a single book in community college. Thank you private torrent sites!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
i stopped after the time when amazon came around, with books only and through google search i was able to get one book off. that was a little year before transfered toa 4 year, then i really was on the hunt at the time for torrented/free book downloads. yea those online access and professor exclusive books were annoying.
gray@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If Oblivion has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Oblivion has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Oblivion has only one fan then that is me. If Oblivion has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Oblivion, then I am against the world.
krisevol@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
You can always let students have more access to student loans so they could be in debt for 40 years instead of 30 years. Have you thought about that?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No, not the one from last year. This year’s. Written by the professor, who will demand proof you bought his damn book before he’ll teach you.
UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are required to buy my book for the low, low price of 339.79. Twice. Hell, let’s make it three times.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The reagan logo is a nice touch
daggermoon@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why I’ve given up.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that just uniquely American?
auzy1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. Here in Australia they don’t pay us
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
downloads textbook
“HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!”
Mr_Fish@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
STOP!
YOU VIOLATED THE LAW
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
By the gods, there’s a psychopath on the loose!