Bored and broke

["couldbecousin"]

Yes, but it was the irish who invented Whiskey. 

*proudly waves a shamrock overhead* 

Okay.  I'm a melting pot of Irish, Scots, French, English, and German.  Except for sake and kava I'm my own liquor store.

Self-reliance, the spirit that makes America great!  Wooooooo!   

[DukeNukem]

I thought Butterflies was Irish?

["couldbecousin"]

I thought Butterflies was Irish?

She's a Scot who currently lives in Ireland!   

[Scrapheap]

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. 

[Queen Victoria]

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. 

No, we come from meatballs.

[eris]

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

["couldbecousin"]

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. 

[eris]

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  


online maybe there are there are good prices

[Scrapheap]

College textbooks are a criminal racket!!!

["couldbecousin"]

Wow, $100 each for USED?! I've been out of school for 22 years, I had no idea. 

[eris]

oops. booty call. g'night everyone

["couldbecousin"]

oops. booty call. g'night everyone

 :lol:   Take care, see you soon!

[DukeNukem]

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?!?

[Scrapheap]

The college I go to is only $26 a unit. 

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

[renaeden]

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!!!