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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2011, 10:11:05 PM »
Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey.  ;)

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2011, 10:14:26 PM »
I thought Butterflies was Irish?

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2011, 10:22:10 PM »
I thought Butterflies was Irish?

She's a Scot who currently lives in Ireland!   :toporly:
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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2011, 10:22:26 PM »
And the English invented Sex, but we didn't like it, so we just let the rest of the world do it.

I thought the English were hatched from eggs.  :dunno:

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2011, 10:46:59 PM »
And the English invented Sex, but we didn't like it, so we just let the rest of the world do it.

I thought the English were hatched from eggs.  :dunno:


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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2011, 11:25:27 PM »
I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.

Books cost at least 400$ a semester

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2011, 11:29:05 PM »
I realize that college is coming up on the 13th, but what is there to fill the time while giving a sense of satisfaction and meaningfulness? My check has already been all spent on rent, food, and booze. And my savings is well under 100 dollars. I might be able to get a financial aid check before too long, but the main thing is, I'm just bored and feel like I'm just wasting away my time and my mind on nothing productive. I dunno what to do.

Books cost at least 400$ a semester

Unless you can get used ones! I don't know where you'd get them, but it's worth looking into.  :chin:
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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2011, 11:37:28 PM »
yeah, but used books are still expensive. :(

At leasts a hundred bucks per book, used.  5 classes it ads up

sometimes I got lucky, though, with my literature classes. When you read novels you cant get them at the uniersity store for like a dollar a peice  :eyelash:


online maybe there are there are good prices :)
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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2011, 11:39:40 PM »
College textbooks are a criminal racket!!! :tantrum:

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2011, 11:43:02 PM »
Wow, $100 each for USED?! I've been out of school for 22 years, I had no idea.  :(
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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2011, 11:44:12 PM »
oops. booty call. g'night everyone

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2011, 11:46:59 PM »
oops. booty call. g'night everyone

 :lol:   Take care, see you soon!
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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2011, 11:49:52 PM »
Only idiots buy anything from the college bookstore.

In my first semester of college, I made the mistake of taking my financial aid check to the college bookstore and buying my books there. There was a long line, I think one of the books I needed was unavailable at the time, and somehow, I got robbed of 800 dollars in change. Jesus Christ, I never got that money back. Ever since then, all further financial aid checks that I got and will get will go straight into my savings account.

I buy all my college textbooks online. They are a lot cheaper than at those college bookstores. But still fucking expensive as Hell.

To reiterate on what Scrap said, I think college in general, at least in the USA, is a fucking criminal racket. Even a "cheap" community college costs about $2,000+ a semester. Where the fuck is all that money going into, anyways?!? :zombiefuck:

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2011, 12:26:41 AM »
The college I go to is only $26 a unit.  8)

About the only thing California has going for it is cheap education.

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Re: Bored and broke
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2011, 02:41:23 AM »
Here in Australia we don't have to pay tuition fees up front. Instead we have something called HECS where it is like a loan, we end up paying back the university when we get a job and earn over a certain amount. Just like paying tax which is why the university gets our tax file numbers when we first enrol.

Still have to pay for books though and so I agree with this:
College textbooks are a criminal racket!!! :tantrum:
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