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Text Book Prices >:(
Topic Started: Oct 6 2010, 03:15 PM (54 Views)
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Are absolutely ridic. I just spent £50 ON A SINGLE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

£50 is like my weekly budget to live on for crying out loud, I also had to purchase another for £25. So £75 for 2 books. I could have bought so many ordinary books for that price, the other day I bought 5 brand new books from amazon for like £13.

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I don't read books.

Books are the source of all evil. They pollute the brain. They turn a creative person into an intellectual drone.

I read what I can to get by. :)
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r u srs?

edit: and just to clarify the textbooks were mandatory/strongly encouraged for my course at uni, I wasn't being.. extravagant or anything.
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That's one of the things I hated most about University. I once bought a 200 page book for $150.00 CDN.
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In first year, course set books are really useful as you don't know the subject well enough at university level to be able to judge what is a good book and a bad book. In second year I thought the class book for one of my subjects was not very good it was so drily written and full of academic jargon that it was largely unreadable. I bought a book that was three times as good and 60% cheaper. By the time the second semester of second year comes around HP you will be able to very quickly and accurately judge whether a course book is good, bad or indifferent. Academic publishers can pretty much charge what they like for their books as they know that once a book gets on course reading lists in invariably stays there.
HP look up amazon and www.thebookdepository.co.uk and second hand bookshops. You can get a good bargain in second hand books just about any time. Don't be afraid to buy a second-hand book that has been highlighted(unless more than a third of the pages have been marked this way) and books with lots of pencil annotations and underlining are good because you can buy a rubber and erase everything.

P.S. Here are some tips HP, photocopiers are the student's good friend. Second, you can never do enough reading, and read as widely as time will allow. Third, you won't get extra marks for submitting anything before the deadline date so use all the time they give you, but don't go over it, as at Strathclyde you lost 2 marks per day up to five days after the deadline for submissions and after that anything submitted was automatically marked '0'.* Fourth, know your way around the library and be thoroughly familiar with searching the library catalogue electronically. Fifth,don't upset the department office staff,this can pay off big time. Sixth, don't be afraid to ask your lecturers and course leaders what they are hoping to see in the essays they have set. Many of them will drop hints as to what they are looking for, but they won't make it all that obvious so listen carefully to what they say.

I hope that you are settling in HP and beginning to make friends and enjoy yourself. I know that right now getting your degree seems like 20 years away, but your time at university goes quickly and before you know it you will be sitting wearing an academic robe waiting to receive your degree.


P.S. failure to submit ALL the required coursework in a course will ban you from sitting the end of semester/end of year exams. What this means is that you will either have to carry any failed course into second year - which will make your workload very heavy - or if you have been banned from two or more course exams the university will issue you with a 'Withdraw' notification. This means that the university has 'fired' you from your course and you cannot remain at university. This practice goes all the away until you are awarded your Pass degree and leave or you are admitted to the Honours year. If you have to leave at the end of first or second year the university will award you a Certificate in Higher Education. Leaving at the end of third year will get you a Diploma in Higher Education. In my case at the end of third year I had passed all my courses and was awarded a Pass degree(BA) and invited to enter the honours year. I successfully completed the Honours year and graduated with a BA(Hons).

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Excellent advice.

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Thanks for the advice SilentObserver, much appreciated!

I haven't even been to the library here yet actually, I'm going to have to make a trip there very soon though, I've already been set an essay (on a topic I have no clue about, may I add). <_<

And I'm settling in okay, thanks!

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Harry Potter is Blun
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So your at University,Blun? So that means living on instant noodles and lots of cheap beer? Ive heard living on campus is a blast! Hope your having fun B)
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Thanks Nate, I'm increasingly enjoying it here actually. Living on campus is absolutely ideal, the campus itself is actually pretty small so it's nice and cosy and my lectures are less than five minutes away.

And yes. My god my diet is absolutely pants right now. I've literally been living of noodles, rice, spaghetti on toast, take away pizza etc. not good, haha.
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