Going to college? - You gonna get raped.

A Post analysis of the federal data found these 10 schools had the highest total of rape reports on their main campuses in 2014:

• Brown: 43
• U-Conn.: 43
• Dartmouth College: 42
• Wesleyan University: 37
• University of Virginia: 35
• Harvard: 33
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte: 32
• Rutgers-New Brunswick: 32
• University of Vermont: 27
• Stanford: 26

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...these-colleges-have-the-most-reports-of-rape/

 

[Male Idiot]

I feel lucky that we only get the financial kind where I come from.

Only the richest can afford to party, and they can just hire hookers. Those who are not rich enough to party studity their asses off so they can get free goverment tuition.

Or they can take loans that will cripple them for a decade or two.

 

[Caesare]

Agreed. Bookstores rape you financially. And with my experience, when you try to sell your books back to the bookstore, either you sell it successfully and get some money back on it, or they don't buy it because they don't take the previous editions, and you're left with a textbook you're never gonna read again. Plus, you're out $100.

I switched colleges after 2 semesters and I can attest to this. You spend $300.00+ on books and at the end of the semester they are "generous" enough to buy most of them back from you for around $60 bucks total, and there are some books they won't even buy back. The college I switched to had a glorious thing called "textbook rental" which allowed you to "borrow" all textbooks you needed and return them at the end of the semester. All of this was included in the tuition, too, which was still less expensive than the first university I attended.

 

[KingGeedorah]

I switched colleges after 2 semesters and I can attest to this. You spend $300.00+ on books and at the end of the semester they are "generous" enough to buy most of them back from you for around $60 bucks total, and there are some books they won't even buy back. The college I switched to had a glorious thing called "textbook rental" which allowed you to "borrow" all textbooks you needed and return them at the end of the semester. All of this was included in the tuition, too, which was still less expensive than the first university I attended.

It might not be for all text books, but Barnes and Noble has a textbook rental service that is way less then buying the asking price.

 

[Caesare]

It might not be for all text books, but Barnes and Noble has a textbook rental service that is way less then buying the asking price.

I remember my first semester of college, not knowing any better and going to the little kiosk's they had set up all around the campus where they would buy your used textbooks. There were people in line selling their books who were older than me and had done so before so they already knew how much they were going to get screwed over but I guess they just didn't care since their folks probably bought them anyway. I remember hearing more than a few people saying they were going to use the $75-$100 they got back for "going out" money to celebrate after their exams lol.

 

[AnOminous]

I remember my first semester of college, not knowing any better and going to the little kiosk's they had set up all around the campus where they would buy your used textbooks. There were people in line selling their books who were older than me and had done so before so they already knew how much they were going to get screwed over but I guess they just didn't care since their folks probably bought them anyway. I remember hearing more than a few people saying they were going to use the $75-$100 they got back for "going out" money to celebrate after their exams lol.

Never sell them back to these fucking assholes who fuck you over when you buy then, then fuck you over again when you sell them back.

Sell them directly to someone else. I would always list my sells for $1 less than whatever was the lowest price anywhere was selling them, guaranteeing anything I sold would get bought literally a minute or two later. You can make more by choosing some optimized price using some math formulas you can infer from the distribution of prices, but fuck that. I like rewarding the kind of people who actually sit there refreshing and then just immediately buying from whoever is offering the cheapest price. Those people are my buds.

And for some reason, there are always a couple weird, bizarre places and specific dumpsters that end up with giant piles of books in them around medical and law libraries in big cities. Do these people somehow get together and agree that they're just going to abandon piles of $100 bills in random study locations and dumpsters? I don't know. But sometimes you'll find huge hoards of books most of which are still being used and sell them for $50 apiece.

 

[melty]

Let's not forget a lot of classes you don't need the textbook. Maybe it was just my school but after freshman year I didn't buy more than a couple each semester, I would just borrow other people's, a lot of them are 95% the same year after year so you can buy the older version and then figure out which chapters they changed and copy them from someone. Also I would talk to older students to figure out which classes barely used the textbook, or just make excuses to the prof for a couple of weeks until prices went down and I figured out we weren't going to use it/made study buddies

 

[Caesare]

Never sell them back to these fucking assholes who fuck you over when you buy then, then fuck you over again when you sell them back.

Sell them directly to someone else. I would always list my sells for $1 less than whatever was the lowest price anywhere was selling them, guaranteeing anything I sold would get bought literally a minute or two later. You can make more by choosing some optimized price using some math formulas you can infer from the distribution of prices, but fuck that. I like rewarding the kind of people who actually sit there refreshing and then just immediately buying from whoever is offering the cheapest price. Those people are my buds.

And for some reason, there are always a couple weird, bizarre places and specific dumpsters that end up with giant piles of books in them around medical and law libraries in big cities. Do these people somehow get together and agree that they're just going to abandon piles of $100 bills in random study locations and dumpsters? I don't know. But sometimes you'll find huge hoards of books most of which are still being used and sell them for $50 apiece.

Oh I learned quickly, after the first semester of that bullshit I would sell them online for a much better price. A couple textbooks I would end up selling to people I knew who were taking that course the following semester. I only went to that school for a year, I transferred to a college that had the far superior system of "textbook rental" in which you'd borrow your textbooks from the school and give them back at the end of the semester.

That dumpster textbook idea is brilliant though. It's like stealing copper, only legal.

 

[WW 635]

Textbook costs are just another way to rape you.

 

[Kartoffel]

I actually kept my textbooks, because I think it's nice to be able to read again later in them. But I'm also in a pretty good situation it seems, at my university you can normaly borrow books at the library (or even download a digital version) and I had only one course where it was really important to get the book. I mainly bought for psychology courses because they were to popular too borrow without a reservation. But I bought also some books because of interrest / ongoing usefulness.

 

[AnimuGinger]

I'm only keeping my textbooks because I bought them used for cheap, and I have a licensing exam to study for at the end of my program.