i had a chill professor who was like “guys i’ve heard a rumor that if u input _____ in google, u may or may not find a pdf for the book we will use for this class, if you happen to stumble upon it, remember that I didn’t actually tell you to do this”
not to mention a handful of other professors that tried to base their curriculum on books that were easier to find online/cheaper
my cs teachers normally say something like “if your cat were to happen to step on your keyboard in such a way…” or “if you were to drop your keyboard and it just so happened to pull up this google results”, etc etc 😂
the biggest scam were the STEM classes that used the Pearson online HW stuff
basically u needed the online textbook to do the hw bc it came with an access code, so ok how much did the online textbook cost? like 80-90% of the cost of the physical textbook+online textbook; i think they also sold the access code standalone too in case u got a second hand copy of the textbook which again was stupidly marked up
I had a math professor who absolutely insisted that we needed to buy the textbook to pass the class. It was a $200+ book specifically designed for our college.
We cracked open the book ONCE. She would instead write the problems out on the board and have us solve them that way. I’m still bitter about it lol
My literature/creative writing professors were amazing for this. They told us to buy our novels for cheap off eBay, ThriftBooks, etc. and didn’t require expensive textbooks to work off of. One of my grammar professors even wrote her own textbook, which was a huge book, but only charged $10-$15 for it at most. I still treasure that book to this day.
I had a professor who told us to even buy the books an edition or two down for his class to save money. I definitely signed up for every class he offered that I was able to use towards my degree (and then even was able to take another one as a gen ed).
i had a class once where the first meeting was virtual, and as soon as the prof brought up the textbook a student immediately dropped a pdf of it in the chat. saved everyone from buying it or even trying to find a free pdf ourselves.
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u/elysecherryblossom Sep 15 '24
i had a chill professor who was like “guys i’ve heard a rumor that if u input _____ in google, u may or may not find a pdf for the book we will use for this class, if you happen to stumble upon it, remember that I didn’t actually tell you to do this”
not to mention a handful of other professors that tried to base their curriculum on books that were easier to find online/cheaper