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Lycoris1313 t1_j1dghdv wrote

Reply to comment by l4stun1c0rn in [OC] The Average Cost of Attending College in Each US State by malxredleader

The library also doesn’t have enough copies for everyone in the classes. I met for classes every day and you had 24 hours to do homework. If you went to the library to use one of the maybe 5 copies of the book, chances are that they’d be in-use and you’d have to wait in a long queue. God save you if you were part of a lecture hall or if there were multiple sessions of the same class.

As an engineering student, I had a number of classes which required a unique code to access the online content and homework. The codes were often over $150 and only gave access for the duration of the course.

There is also an alarming number of professors who write their own books and FORCE you to buy them for their class.

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l4stun1c0rn t1_j1h6odz wrote

You had homework? In College? Every single day? Jesus Christ. That sounds like a nightmare. Library had everything multiple times. If what you needed wasn't there, you could preorder. Or ask the library to buy things. Library has a certain budget each year where students could just express wishes and they would buy everything within the budget. Professors would even scan the important pages of their books and upload them in the course material folder.

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