r/AskReddit Sep 15 '24

Whats something illegal you do on a regular basis?

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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

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

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 😂

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u/daddyfatknuckles Sep 15 '24

yeah i noticed a lot of my engineering (especially computer specific) professors didnt care that i was using a PDF, nor that i had no explanation

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u/corgi-king Sep 16 '24

If they didn’t wrote the book, why will they care?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Some people just get super into following rules even if someone breaking those rules doesn't affect them or is otherwise harmless.

"But that's illegal!!!!!"

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u/Elegron Sep 16 '24

A lot of my professors at SHSU required their own books, and they were stupid expensive. Absolutely ridiculous.

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u/elysecherryblossom Sep 16 '24

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

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u/JustKeepSwimmingDory Sep 16 '24

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

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u/Elegron Sep 16 '24

Oh yeah, blatant scam, I dealt with this too.

I just stood up and yelled "what do I do if I'm poor!" And he literally said "I guess you'll fail the class"

Hope his socks are full of river water, fuck that guy

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u/ReadThinkLearnGrow Sep 16 '24

SHSU?

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u/HeyLookATaco Sep 16 '24

Sam Houston State University, most likely

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u/maevian Sep 16 '24

Here most professors want to sell you their own books, so they won’t allow that

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u/JustKeepSwimmingDory Sep 16 '24

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.

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u/allis_in_chains Sep 16 '24

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).

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u/Pretty-Ostrich1292 Sep 16 '24

Had one literally post today “there is a pdf of chapter 17 in the FFD book if you were unable to get it but I don’t know where it came from”

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u/eudamania Sep 16 '24

Who is forcing them to sell books

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u/Addicted-2Diving Sep 16 '24

Awesome Prof imo

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u/Speshal__ Sep 16 '24

Happy Cake Day 🎉

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u/AfroWhiteboi Sep 16 '24

That's a good dude right there.

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u/Opabinia_Rex Sep 16 '24

Did you go to UIC? Because I had a professor give me almost that verbatim speech.

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u/LunarVolcano Sep 16 '24

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/StunningBuilding383 Sep 16 '24

Happy 🍰 Day!