I think most people can remember the dread of buying college text books at the beginning of each semester. Well, I'm going back to school and I just bought 8 textbooks on Amazon. So as I was looking I discovered one book on sale for $80, then I noticed (and remembered my miserly old tactic of saving money) the last edition of the book with the used price of $4!!! That's like 5 steak dinners difference! So of course I bought the 4th edition instead of the 5th, it's always worked just fine before.
I looked in the syllabus and saw that I needed to read chapters 7, 10, and, 11 for today's class. I dutifully did my reading and then went to answer the questions. They questions just didn't seem right so I went back to the syllabus where he had included chapter titles as well as numbers.
Turns out I needed to read chapter 8, 12, and 14! Great! Then like five times during class he asked us to turn to a certain page and none of mine matched, of course. So I need to run and read three different chapters and answer these stupid questions... Textbooks are not as exciting as I had remembered them being :(
I think I need a steak dinner!
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1 comments:
aww... I've done that before. It usually works out to have the different edition, but in some cases it was a real pain in the neck. Good for you for going back to school. That takes a lot of motivation! Good luck with everything!
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