• @[email protected]
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    266 hours ago

    My anthropology class had us buy four textbooks all written by the professor.

    None of them was used at all during class.

    I didn’t buy them, or rent them, or spend any money on them. And then I learned to look at the book author while signing up for classes, since the book(s) is/are usually listed.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      65 hours ago

      This is essentially just stealing from poor college kids. Despicable. I hardly ever bought any media in college (books, CDs, whatever). I spent an incredible amount of time at the school library studying there. I couldn’t afford to buy the books. If a book was mandatory then I had to find a different class to fill that slot.

    • @Landless2029
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      75 hours ago

      That’s something I’d want to take to the dean… But then the prof would just use each book ONCE as a workaround.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 hours ago

        I worked for a professor like that.

        Apparently the guy had complaints like this for years, forcing students to buy HIS BOOKS. ALL OF THEM.

        They don’t give a fuck.

        • @AtariDump
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