Chit-Chat: Most likely Uni talk, idk sometimes food and stuff

[Esper]

Think must be what they mean when they say divided by a common language.

 

[Spiff]

Thanks for your "advice" and "words"! It kinda "motivating" me.

haha damn killer is breaking out the sass on you guys

 

[Corrin]

It only costed $80 to register here ;A;

 

[pkmin3033]

Holycrap, it costs you guys a lot to register! I had to pay £20 ($29 USD, $38 CAD) to submit my application form for my undergrad and postgrad.

...but then, I think fees are substantially more expensive over here since the system was ballsed up. Something like £9000 pa, rather than the £3000 I had to pay =/

 

[Esper]

School is so expensive that a friend of mine had her credit card number stolen and used to buy textbooks. That's like... really sad.

 

[pkmin3033]

Most textbooks generally aren't essential I don't think; they're more supplementary reading, and if you've got a college/university library they've probably got several copies in there. I managed to get by mostly on lecture notes, although I did try and do the recommended reading...for a while anyway. xD

They're so damn pricey, though. £60 a book is crazy, especially considering the costs on top of that for other, more essential things...like food, rent, etc.

 

[killer-curry]

So after one day of doing some document submission, I got my dorm room key.

My dorm is like a three storey house, the room is not that small, have a stable Internet and it is facing outside means fresh air! The rental is not that expensive for like 230 ringgit without counting electric and water bill. But I guess some uni students having sem-break yet so it is still dead silence.

I won't say it is a college anymore, ok I put wrongly that time. Actually, I am going for one year foundation of Science and four more years for Quantity Surveing Degree in Uni so I guess it is not a college haha.

But the senior is great, and humorous with the best question of all time for our troublesome life:

" What to Eat?"

 

[blue]

University tuition fees in the UK are ridiculously high. It was originally £3,000 but they tripled it to £9,000 per year meaning if you take a 3-year degree course you'll owe them £27,000 in total.

 

[killer-curry]

that is ridiculously high, my university tution fees is estimate about 44k Ringgit and foundation for 8k.

 

[Gabri]

I pay 1k€ per year for University. And I have my own different ways to get the textbooks I need. /yaaarrrr

 

[pkmin3033]

Yeah...I got an undergrad and a postgrad for less than £15k, now I couldn't even do two years on that...how they expect students to pay these things off I do not know.

 

[pkmin3033]

ahahahahahaha that's cute. I spent $330 (Roughly 170£) on ONE textbook for my discrete math class.

ALTHOUGH one time I did buy 5 books for English class one semester and it cost me EXACTLY $100.

...that had better of been the best freakin' textbook ever. That's outrageous.

I actually managed to pawn most of my first year textbooks to first years in my second year...for a fraction of what I paid, sure, but money is money and I wasn't going to use them again. xD

 

[Esper]

ALTHOUGH one time I did buy 5 books for English class one semester and it cost me EXACTLY $100.

One semester of English books cost me like $20 for several books because they were all Dover thrift editions which are like $2 each.

 

[EC]

Doesn't Amazon sell textbooks for discounted prices?

 

[Corrin]

I bought textbooks like once but when I discovered we never use them, I didn't after that :3

 

[Tsutarja]

I'm a good student and I buy my textbooks to stay out of legal trouble :x

...except for when I have a friend who has a PDF of a book I need xD

 

[dad]

all of this textbook talk has me feeling like the $100 in amazon gift cards i have saved won't get me one semester of books :v

 

[Tsutarja]

Textbooks are nothing but a nightmare, especially when you're coming from grade school and you're used to them being free.

Oh, and you have to buy Scantrons at my college, too. If you're lucky enough maybe there's a professor that supplies them to the students here.

 

[pkmin3033]

What's a Scantron? O_o

We had to buy own print credits here...well, if we used up the £5 we were given at the start of the year. Mine accrued to the end of my third year when I had to print off a terrifying amount for my dissertation...in full colour.

 

[Hikamaru]

As someone who went to schools for students with special needs, I never had the pain of buying textbooks since some of these students need simplicity.