I have returned from my vacation, only to be slapped in the face by stark reality:
The "mandatory" purchase of textbooks and materials for this fall semester costs no less than 500 USD, equivalent to 22590 Pesos. Thought it would be possible to just pirate them off third party sources, but nooooooooo they are the newest editions that just came out two months ago, so nobody actually has a hardcopy to provide the scans. Hell I thought the 450 USD price tag for the last semester is insane and I have more classes back then.
Now people says that the price of college textbooks are growing at three times the rate in which the currency here (US Dollars) is inflating. That is a wooping 15% increment since last year!
I'm not saying that the colleges themselves don't get a cut from the feeding frenzy off the students' wallets, but three times the rate of inflation with every new edition that includes minimal changes like a new cover? That is
ing criminal! Sigh... captalism...
The "mandatory" purchase of textbooks and materials for this fall semester costs no less than 500 USD, equivalent to 22590 Pesos. Thought it would be possible to just pirate them off third party sources, but nooooooooo they are the newest editions that just came out two months ago, so nobody actually has a hardcopy to provide the scans. Hell I thought the 450 USD price tag for the last semester is insane and I have more classes back then.
Now people says that the price of college textbooks are growing at three times the rate in which the currency here (US Dollars) is inflating. That is a wooping 15% increment since last year!
I'm not saying that the colleges themselves don't get a cut from the feeding frenzy off the students' wallets, but three times the rate of inflation with every new edition that includes minimal changes like a new cover? That is
ing criminal! Sigh... captalism...
