School

I look a lot douchier in pictures.

www.nbcnews.com/feature/freshman-year/college-textbook-prices-have-risen-812-percent-1978-n399926



I was sort-of lucky in this regard when I went to college. There was a book store across the street from campus that offered cheaper books. There was only like one or two books that I had to buy in the college book store. Maybe three.

LOL. I have two textbooks, "Intro to Communications" and "Radio Production", gathering dust in my closet for that reason.



Yeah, I never bought textbooks until I was 100% certain I needed them. In most classes, textbooks are a suggestion and not an actual requirement.

For me it was different. Math classes were the ones that absolutely required a text book because we had to solve the equations and formulas and whatever at the end of each chapter. I had one professor who photocopied the text book for us, but the rest were too lazy. Music class was also annoying because each text book came with a CD we had to listen to. The rest of my classes either didn't need a text book or were semi-required. Science classes, I think, are a good example of the latter.

Those were the worst where it was a "book" written by the professor so it's completely useless outside of the class.

I've had this conversation a lot with people lately. I'm really interested to see how things are in say 20 or 25 years from now if I have kids who will be going to college. When I was growing up it was never a matter of 'if' I was going to college. It was 'where' are you going to college? It was just a natural step after high school, I was never presented with the opportunity of doing anything different. I got a liberal arts degree and was able to find a job and now I'm in the process of shifting careers and all that, but even now just eight years after graduating it's so much different. If I had kids today I would tell them a bunch of things I was never told; if you go to college, you go with a plan. I don't care what you minor in be it Native American Dialects or Fast Food Taste Testing but your major is to be something practical like business or something that will directly relate to your career. Also, if you don't know what you want to do, you aren't going to find out by taking out $100K in student debt. I can't imagine the hurdles you need to jump through nowadays and I couldn't imagine being saddled with such huge debt at the ripe old age of 22. Hopefully something changes soon.

You guys are right. In fact, you can argue that with the major cuts and essentially cramming of students into classes and impact problems that students aren't even being properly prepared for a career. Where I went to college they were essentially just trying to churn people out to make room for incoming students. There isn't as much hands-on or direct teaching going on at a large university. In fact I really didn't learn a whole lot in terms of film school there and if I didn't make my own work and work on productions while going there I probably wouldn't have been able to land a good job right away. I work full time now as a video editor while working with a production company, and none of the skills I use were ones I learned from school but just by doing my own projects. In school, yeah we shot stuff, but mostly they attempted to make up for the budget cuts by having us write a bunch of film theory essays. That's great for my peers that only watch Nolan and Tarantino movies to judge movies based on more than entertainment value, but that doesn't land you a job. I still value having a degree from a 4-year university, but it's mostly just there to pad my resume and demonstrate that I could balance school and beer pong effectively.

I took a philosophy course in college and at the end of the semester the instructor told us that we couldn't sell the books back because he wasn't using them the next year. He said that it was because he was pretty sure it was written by an atheist.

I am in college again. I graduated in 2013 I think it was, couldn't find a job and since my safety degree was like 85% done I decided I would try that out. I tool biology this summer which was not bad at all. This fall I got 2 classes and then in the spring I got 1 and then I am done forever this time I hope.

can anybody guess when I graduated from this song?

I never had ramen noodles once in college. Del Taco, sure. $1.50 hot dog and soda at Costco, all the time. I actually lived off hot dogs my senior year of college, I must have eaten hundreds of them.

My first year of college I lived on cafeteria food and vending machines and the $5 Little Caesars pizza that everyone chipped in on. My second and third year of college I ate fast food and whatever cheap stuff I could find at Walgreens and 7/11.

If I remember correctly my graduating class decided on some stupid Creed song. I never actually enrolled into a college. While I served I had a few classes I could sign up for that were being provided for free and put them towards my CCAF, which I never finished. College and school just never really connected with me. The only time it did was when I finally got my career diploma for Gunsmithing two years ago.