Question:
Need to VENT>:O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Daniel
2013-08-27 06:56:08 UTC
Ok so My Organic chemistry professor is a complete and utter *** hole. He (trying to save students money) decided that day before classes start, long after the book stores no longer sold the textbook and after students can no longer return their textbooks comes up with the idea that we should use some stupid online homework program that you can only get if you buy the textbook directly from the maker. So now more then half my class has to go out and buy the exact same textbook they already have just for a free code that comes with it if and only if u buy it directly from the producer. I mean WTF college students are not made of money and those who are trying to avoid loans by having job cant just drop there entire paycheck for a stupid textbook to do the homework, A textbook we already own and have purchased but now have to get some stupid little code that they dnt sell at the book store and we wnt receive the code or textbook until after the first two assignments are due unless we drive to the production plant and pick it up ourselves in California and we are in ohio. So now I have to try and get as much money as possible out my identical textbook just so I can purchase a non resellable version of the book online and the stupid code so I can pass a class. he has just made this course cost over $250 extra if I cant get rid of this book.
Three answers:
pisgahchemist
2013-08-27 07:15:16 UTC
Textbook rental for undergraduates IS included in the tuition at Western Carolina University (Cullowhee, NC) which is part of the UNC system.



Perhaps you should pool your resources and form study groups where multiple students work with problems downloaded from one code number.
BII
2013-08-27 17:51:02 UTC
Now that you have had your rant consider routes to correcting the situation: get five of you together, put your arguments down coherently on paper, and take them to the Chair of the Chemistry Department or better to the Dean of Science for attention. (Also send it to the Student Newspaper.) Reading through what you have stated you have a good case for change. Most faculty and University Administrators are acutely aware of the cost burden of text books to undergraduates and every effort should be made to minimize these costs.

Your prof should put together the on-line set of problems (too busy doing research?).
anonymous
2013-08-27 13:58:46 UTC
I know right. Textbooks should be included in the tuition.


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