Off Topic 2015

[canes21]

I've been on hold for over 10 minutes with my school's admissions office. Not only does their mistake remove me from any classes and make it impossible for me to sign up(saying I have a hold, yet when I click the link to pay said hold, it takes me to a receipt where I paid this thing awhile back), but I have to wait this long at least to get on the phone.

I guess I could be in a much worse situation, but this is pretty annoying when you only have 2 classes left to take and call it done... with this school at least.

20 minutes now. I think I am going to drive up there and stay on hold and see if I can drive all the way to school before I ever talk to an actual human being.

[55]

How do you find Will Smith in the snow?

Spoiler

Fresh prints.

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I laughed at that stupid joke WAY more than I should have.

[Watson]

Can't find a pdf of my textbook to download, looks like I'm doing this whole class without it then. **** that scam

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by Watson

Can't find a pdf of my textbook to download, looks like I'm doing this whole class without it then. **** that scam

lol, I did that fairly often too. Sometimes sites might have 70% of the book from 2-3 years ago. I'd take that for free over paying hundreds of dollars for the textbook. Key is to find sentences from the textbook you're gonna be using(so just borrow someones for a second or two and copy down a sentence from the book), and then search it on google. I did that for a number of my past books and managed to find books online.


Unfortunately, some courses force the scam on students. They intentionally change up the book every semester to the point where if you have a copy from the prior semester, it's of no use because if you're doing cases from the book,the info might be even slightly altered to the point where if you don't have the current semesters version of the book, you're screwed.

[Bellsprout]

My university rents textbooks for free. I'm sure that cost is built in somewhere else, but it still makes me feel good about it.

[ThreeKing]

This is a "female" playing tennis at the Australian Open:

[l3ulvl]

That's gotta be Stosur, I've nicknamed her the Tennisnator but it hasn't caught on.

[ThreeKing]

I bet she could kick about 80% of OS' ***. lol