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college bookstore fail (pg. 2)
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
I've been standing in a line for an hour and twenty mintues, have yet to even get to the counter where I get my books whereafter a second line starts just to check out. All the while this one dude's been standing at the same register for forty minutes, only making things slower. There's little reason I can see why one person would take forty minutes to pay for some books. Anyone else go to a ghetto school that does things ass backwards because enough shady, untrustworthy people attend the same school requiring inconvenient and ultimately pointless provisions to be in place? I've never browsed TA while standing in one line for so long before.
c0r version: god-ing-damn the undesirables |
40 minutes? I'd ing kill myself. If anyone ever spends more than 5 minutes in a line I make it apparent that they are holding up the line by shouting sumfin like "can we open up another line since this one isn't going anywhere?!?" I've caused a scene countless times at CVS which is notorious for attractive foreign old people with coupons (dangerous combination). |
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| Theresa |
I have absolutely no idea how valid any of the wiki-answers are, but according to them, we spend 17% of our lives waiting and:
| quote: | | The average person spends approximately an hour a day waiting in line, which totals to about 2 to 3 years in a lifetime. |
Made me wonder how much time we waste in general, and then I saw this:
| quote: | | How long does an average person spend showering in a lifetime? |
| quote: | | 182 days and 12 hours.... at 10 Minutes a day /3650 minutes a year. Average lifespan is 72. |
We spend a huge portion of our lives doing a lot of nothing. This isn't even including how much time we spend sleeping, watching TV or being on the internet. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Well, watching TV and web browsing are forms of entertainment, not really "nothing." People can't spend a hundred percent of their time being "productive," however you might want to define that term. They need some slack time to rest their bodies and minds. |
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| shaw |
cool story:
A couple of my friends in college started a business buying & selling books. Basically, if they could buy it cheaper or sell it higher, they'd just make you a little better deal than the bookstore (which still meant ridiculous margin). They wrote some program & script that fetched all the data & spat back a price (or said no). That worked for a year or so, 'til the school threatened to sue them.
Now they both work for Microsoft. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
cool story:
A couple of my friends in college started a business buying & selling books. Basically, if they could buy it cheaper or sell it higher, they'd just make you a little better deal than the bookstore (which still meant ridiculous margin). They wrote some program & script that fetched all the data & spat back a price (or said no). That worked for a year or so, 'til the school threatened to sue them.
Now they both work for Microsoft. |
Cool story bro :gsmile: |
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| shaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Cool story bro :gsmile: |
preemptive meme ftw. |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
I've caused a scene countless times at CVS which is notorious for attractive foreign old people with coupons (dangerous combination). |
You find mature expats alluring? |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
You find mature expats alluring? |
Yes I find you attractive. You wanna fight about it? |
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| FuzzQi |
Ok I'm slightly over-generalising here but:
-Price of 400 page book from shop: $120
-Price of photocopying one page: $0.10
-Number of pages you'll actually use: ~40 - 100 / 400
Depending on what subject you're doing, and whether you actually WANT the book itself, do the math! |
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| OkiDokie |
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
Ok I'm slightly over-generalising here but:
-Price of 400 page book from shop: $120
-Price of photocopying one page: $0.10
-Number of pages you'll actually use: ~40 - 100 / 400
Depending on what subject you're doing, and whether you actually WANT the book itself, do the math! |
That's what I do most of the time. Books at the bookstore are around 150$-200$ when they're new, if used, they could be around 80$-100$, so I buy the photocopied texts for 30$.
The Chinese 'coffee shops' around the school do know how to make some extra money :haha: |
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
No, not really. But we seldom buy the actual books required for the course here in Brazil. We usually just have a few chapters copied and study them. |
Oh yes, the Guatemalan way! :o |
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