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I’ve had professors who “accidentally” drop the pdf links in an email and say “Wow, I totally hope you guys don’t click this link and don’t download this free pdf of our textbook cough cough”. Love those type of professors.
If I become a professor in another life, I am doing this. Someway, somehow.
I had an ethics teacher give a lecture on the ethics of piracy as part of his first lecture. It included a tutorial.
The year I taught university, this was pretty much what I did. I also give my tutoring students free books. I already have digital copies of everything, so why not?
@@deadlypandaghostwhat a legend
Lmaoo I’ve also had a few Professors who gave us the pdfs, it’s so dope, I wish they all did
You either get the professor who wrote the book and exclusively sells it at the school store for $80 or the professor who photocopies 20 page readings for the class every week
Don't forget the chad "There is no book for this class" professor.
@@PenitusVox
I had a class where the teacher straight up admitted we only had a textbook because it was required by the school.
@@PenitusVox In uni I had one of the leading researchers in his field for one of my classes, and he would just walk in, look at the board for a few moments, scribble down five words, and then proceed to share stories from his (many, many) field research journeys and what they taught him, as it pertained to our curriculum. Absolute legend.
$80, more like $250+
Oh, and $100+ just to access homework
Once did a whole semester's worth of homework during the software's two week free trial. So worth it
and there’s no in between ever lol
Rick knows that having the camera on is 15% of his grade.
Be more like Rick.
I wish
I’m in my last year of college and haven’t bought a single book. The lengths I will go to avoid this is astounding.
share some stories with the class
@@simonghoul3602 I just finished uni and I can only say one thing: libgen!
Scihub is also great
Then you get the occasional "I wrote my book but here's the pdf, lol" professor, love them
Did you pass without them? Or did you find the book somewhere else?
Same, my school even has a masterlist of common textbooks made by the students where they compile pdfs for others to use. It's fantastic.
What lengths have u taken to avoid buying books
One of my professors wrote his own textbook. But instead of making us all buy it, he just gave us the pdfs and told us not to let the printing company know. Legendary.
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Exposing himself to considerable risk doing so, what a man
seems like he really did write the textbook to help people learn, then!
Also: if you need to access an academic journal article, but it's behind some sort of paywall or something, just contact the person who wrote it and ask them to send it to you. I'm literally not kidding, not even slightly. It very often works, because the writers of these articles usually would rather get their work out there to new readers than anything else.
That baffles me tbh. Here in Argentina every class uploads the pdfs to the college's virtual campus. Having to buy the physical book is unheard of.
Once, when my professor did this, he said "you can buy it at a discounted price at the school bookstore" and some student didn't realize his mic was still on and said "discounted price my ass". My professor spent five minutes trying to find out who said it. Thank goodness they don't know how to use zoom
LMFAO! what a legend that student is
Lmfao i had similar experience to this, cussed on professor and almost everybody heard it but thank god somehow there's no response from professor. At the time, class is about to start in a few minutes and nobody turned on the camera so there's a chance she probably out for a few minutes. I immediately realized it, muted the mic and changed the username just in case.
She deserved the cuss though.
Ngl, I would say the same thing if they told me that
What would even happen if they found out though?
Are professors at your college/uni so uptight that you'd get in trouble for that? It's not like that person was cussing out someone or using some super taboo word.
@@BlueGangsta1958 that’s true. He was probably just trying to embarrass the student. Also that same teacher refused to give me partial credit on a problem that I got mostly correct this week so screw him some more
My professor who wrote his own textbook rarely mentioned that he wrote it himself, and instead would fish for compliments by referencing 'the author' like some kind of vague, unknown character
That is not fishing for compliments, that is trying to reduce bias.
@@IsaSaien i'm not really phrasing it right, but he was definitely fishing for compliments. He'd say things like 'so what was your favorite part about this chapter?' 'Which point did you think was most convincing?' 'Has this given you any new perspectives?' Though he would never ask if there was anything we *didn't* like for example
Lmao
But can you be mad about it? Writing a textbook is usually a lot of work.
@@prototypeinheritance515 that's pretty cringe though lol
I remember back in highschool, we always were recommended specific editions for books and everyone usually got those. I once borrowed a ye old book from my dad, which happend to have very detailed and specific footnote in it, much more detailed than the school's book, so I would use them in class. My teacher believed I was an absolute litterary genius, quoting 18th century's classics out of my head. I felt like Harry Potter in the Half Blood Prince ; a fraud, but an happy one
I had the same thing happen to me. We were reading dead poets society, a book that i love know but i'd never read anything in school out of principle, and i found an old used copy at a secondhand bookstore with notes with analysis on the character, poems, the author who wrote the poems, even the specific style of poems which we had to do or something (blocked it out), everything. I aced that class and didn't even read the damn book
You're not a fraud for obtaining the information. That's how anyone who's smart would do it. Being smart is just about memory really. If you can remember a lot you're basically a genius.v
@@Royalty_girlie I would agree in a way but I would genius is inadvertent memory. It's experience, less remembering
@@deepdive1338 You're right but being the dummy I am i think anyone who can remember more than 5 pieces of information at a time is a genius lol
Wow, it’s like having good annotations is helpful in education.
And the author is the professor himself.
mr. hemingway is looking great for 123 and also dead for 60 years
I guess Film Theory was right. Ernest Hemingway *is* Deadpool.
That's the joke
I wish teachers would ask me me to turn off my camera instead of forcing me to turn it on...
"damn you look ROUGH today, turn that off please"
@@d.o.m.i. I know teachers that would legit say that.
From the perspective of teaching online this year - it is so dang awkward staring at little black boxes and names for hours :’D like it feels like talking to myself… I respect when students keep their cameras off but like when we’re in person I can see your faces lol
@@wrinkleintime4257 💯
I’m a graduate student, when I’m taking a class as a student I really want my camera off but once I did online class as a teaching assistant, I realized how awkward it was to see all the black boxes, it felt like I was talking by myself
I had an art teacher who did something like this. He wrote his own book on the history of colonial art in Puerto Rico, where I’m from, and told us we all had to buy it cause that was the only way to get the book. One of my classmates was pissed off cause the book was like $80, and the teacher said some condescending shit towards her, so she asked a few of her friends for some cash, bought the book, and just scanned the whole thing and gave everyone in class a PDF copy just to spite the teacher. Dude was pissed, but he couldn’t do shit. We all technically used his book, just a PDF copy of it, so he couldn’t make all like 20 something students fail. Good times.
FUCKING NICE
She’s a bad bitch I know she appears in his nightmares 🤤
shes his teacher
He sounds like an a-hole :)
queen shit
"Yeah this book is in the public domain, it's literally free online because it's several hundred years old but I do need you to buy the specific anthology edition and I will be referencing page numbers exclusively."
I hope we're eventually able to see the entire 3 hour lecture cut up in 30 to 60 second sketches
And then finally a compilation of them all strung together. Imagine all these clips being from the same class. Absolute chaos lma
Top tier comment
This should be a thing!
It'll be like McBane form the Simpsons where you can sting them together into one complete story
The class exists in an endless limbo where they are trapped in a constant time loop doomed to sit through classes over and over until the sun supernovas
My sister’s ethics professor wrote his own book and made them buy it. Talk about great ethics
It's like some cruel lesson -- "if you rig the system in your favor, who within that system can stop you? That's why we have ethics..."
It is actually illegal to do this in most places in the US, UNLESS the money from the purchase goes to the school. Many professors I work with use their own textbooks but don’t actually make any money off them. The school/publisher basically owns the rights to use it and keeps all the money.
Still doesn’t make it feel better dropping money on stupid books, but hey at least the prof was hopefully less evil than assumed
"Those who can't do, teach" - Dewey, school of rock
Universities are neoliberal entities. I know you’re just making a joke, but there’s no reason for them to be truly ethical if they believe in the myth of the meritocracy
yea
One of my (most prestigious within the faculty) professors wrote his own text book and left it at the faculty's copy shop for us to buy for less than 10€, and he told us not to buy the original because it was like 10 years old and there were things we would write differently now, and in the version he left at the copy shop, he included articles from other people that he thought were clearer than his chapter's on the subject. Idk. He was very old and very sweet and the person most obsessed with the semantics of metaphors you'll ever know.
Linguistics is beyond me and my semantics teacher is just helpless as she have given up hope that either of my class would be going for linguistics and meeting her again in future 😂 she did gave us pdfs of books tho
He sounds delightful! I love professors like that.
Now THAT'S a professor I'd gladly give my money to!
Have you ever experienced buying a "new" book for like $100 only to find out it's unbinded? The book has no binding. It's just the pages that they expect you to put in a binder. This has happened twice to me.
They also will not let you resell that either not the reselling is that great.
same! i tied it up with shoelaces thru the binder holes. still have it
wtf kind of textbook hell is this! my mind has been boggled. and i thought deckled edges were the dumbest thing in publishing.
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast I thought deckled edges were some kind of manufacturing defect when I once saw them on a book in a store.
You expect the school bookstores to miss out of the extra dough they get nickle-and-diming students for binders?
One of our lecturers told us in an email to *absolutely* not use websites to get copies of the books for free. To make sure of this, he gave us links to some places with books for free so that we could avoid them.
You think he was covertly pushing you to get those free copies?
Either he was really trusting and naive in you guys or doing reverse psychology
What were the links?
I've had awesome professors who've done the same thing, "Definitely don't get the textbook from this online source linked here: *wink wink*"
@@adityachakrabarti3164 Duh
I remember I bought a different edition of, of mice and men, because the edition the school had was out of print and they got all angry at me and threw a fit, even though the only thing that changed was the cover art
Lenny didn't die for this
"The alfalfas" 😢
I just finished it over the weekend and gosh I was so sad.
WTH? Are they forcing you to support the school store, so they can collect the huge markup? What a racket! Even if they let you sell it back to them at a loss afterward.
@@MagusMarquillin we dont have a school store we have to buy this stuff from other shops
For my AP English Lit class I decided to just borrow my dad's old copy that looked like it'd been printed in the 1970s... the book was *The Canterbury Tales* and two weeks later I learned that everyone else was reading a Modern English translation, whereas I'd spent the whole time struggling to wade through the original Middle English version.
Damn... I've tried to read it without any aid. English that old just becomes a totally a different dialect.
It would've been still modern english, just... really old modern english. Middle English is a separate language and barely more than gibberish to a modern english speaker
Had a professor who recorded his own DVDs and required people to buy them to pass the class. He kept track of purchases, so even if you learned the material outside of his lectures, you would still fail the class if you didn't drop a couple hundred on his DVDs.
Were his bars sick, though?
Is that even legal to do?
@@Aquablue62 of course not. But it is very difficult to prove in court that you were forced to buy something, and if you succeed, then you will still not pass a single exam at your educational institution (the so-called "teacher solidarity" will help with this).
That’s utterly ridiculous
I would say "how is this shit not illegal" but, yeah, greatest country on earth. I had a professor who tried selling her own shit at the end of most lectures and neglecting to give us proper materials for most of the semester. Needless to say, we all wrote quite a descriptive feedback of her at the end of the year and from what I heard, she no longer teaches that class.
Mine wrote her own book, and used it for every class! She wouldn't allow a pirate version and always asked where we find a particular exercise
how to sell book? force others to read it.
Same thing happened to me. It wasn't even a good book :(
the entire class should pool to buy the book once and then scan in the pages and distribute the pdf to everyone.
Common thing at uni but our teachers let us make a copy. And their books were not expensive so it didn't make huge difference
I once had a prof who was still finishing her textbook so we got the word documents emailed to us for free. The next term the book was published and so we had to buy it or use the e-version. The problem isn't really the teachers, its the publishing companies. The writers are making little to nothing on royalties from the sales most of the time, but if they give out free versions, they are violating the copyright and could get in trouble/sued by their own publisher for sharing their own book. Don't let anyone tell you that capitalism makes us free. (lol)
The fact that most of my professors and lecturers actually giving out pdf, make easy to understand PowerPoint presentation and actually make TH-cam channels to upload their recorded videos in case someone couldn't attend the class is such a blessing towards me and other classmates.
Same, my professors are mostly fine with getting the book online. The only one recommended a book of his own was my research lecturer, it wasn't that expensive and he referenced it a lot in his class. Unfortunately he passed away last year. A good man, and his book is still relevant even outside of his class.
Once my thesis director published his book, he referred to it as "a piece of shit, but one [he would] try to sell nonetheless". I admire his honesty.
I love how you're paraphrasing the quote in a formal way just for a TH-cam comment
I, too, admire that man's honesty, I strive to be able to confidently sell works that I personally deem to be shit 😂😂
I felt like a sucker my first semester in college. As a foreign student, I did every prep work the syllabus stated before the first class. I was so pissed I spent like 200 on used books alone and none of them where ever referenced in class
So many hours spent in the library going over 'suggested reading', only for none of it to ever come up...
@@Nersius It's suggested for you to learn the subject
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I thought that's what the 4 textbooks, 12 articles, and 3 research projects were for.
@@Nersius there's always more to know
@@user-cy4js3tv9n
Yeah, but you don't gotta learn that stuff on a deadline.
I'll throw one at you that's even worse. When I was at uni, I had to choose my final project to be on research (I studied psychology), so I basically lived in the library for months and all I did was look up papers and help my tutor write some bullshit book that he then could enforce upon his future students.
The best part is that besides me not having learnt anything useful, my name didn't appear once in the whole book.
That's pretty shitty honestly. An acknowledgement would've been nice. Professors profiting of off the free labour of their students? Pfft no such thing..
Wow. Just... wow
Would be a shame if you had plagiarised writing that book for your professor.
@Tomato That's incredibly common in academia. A lawsuit would've gone nowhere.
Not even in the Acknowledgments section? What a dick move!
I have a professor who wrote the definitive textbook on the subject (Banking Laws in the Philippines). Instead of making us buy his book, he went out of his way to send each of us his students a physical copy of his book.
Based.
I once took a course on the history of film and obviously we had to watch a number of specific movies for online discussions. The professor asked us to link where we found the movies or note which arthouse theater. I thought for sure this was to discourage pirating.
Nope. It was so that students would be able to share where the movie could be viewed cheapest. She was 100% ok with the sussiest of sites being linked, or for people to share what a fun time they had seeing it in a small theater.
Now I know why I see all you UCLA film kids at the revival theaters!
Glad you had a better experience than mine, my professor just said “glhf” in finding and paying for 10 movies
And let's be honest, in terms of most textbooks, you barely have to use them anyway. Then you really feel like you wasted money.
Unless the teacher is so hands-off that the "lessons" are basically just reading from the textbook, in which case you feel like you wasted money _on the class._
@@reidheidler5138 Those are the courses I tend not to do great in.
Ohhhh sometimes they'll make you buy the $50+ digital key to online work in the class and the only thing you'll use that for is logging in once
I usually don’t buy the textbooks unless I’m 100% sure I wouldn’t be able to pass the class without it and there’s not a free version online. I got away with it for a few classes when most of the textbook material was covered in class anyway.
Last year when my classes where all online there were a couple times where I never bought the textbooks and didn’t even realize until the end of the quarter
That's how you end up with 3 different copies of the odyssey
To be fair, that's one of the rare ones I can actually understand - different translations from different centuries of wildly varying quality and accuracy...
@@xizorx4 You are a wise person and deserve more likes than the person who created this thread
My last two years of school I refused to buy any textbooks. I figured out that my campus kept copies of textbooks for every single course behind the desk at the library. They’d let you look at the books so I’d go into the library and photocopy the chapters I was supposed to read. Half the time I didn’t even end up reading them because I could figure out the assignments through inference and googling information. To this day I’m convinced that most of the college experience is a total scam; but then again, so is everything in the US.
It totally is people used to be able to get good paying jobs without college at all. What changed not sure.
_That time capitalism made a whole country, and it was fundamentally broken at every level._
Question what did you study and what school you went to? I could not pull off shit studying philosophy even if I wanted to. What grade did you get?
I did this for the last 3 years. I just screenshotted everything
@@ErwinPommelBetter than the “communist” Soviet Union or China, objectively.
Lol. This happened to me once with Picture of Dorian Gray. I’m like “It’s literally in the public domain.”
I don't regret most of the books I got. But the other day, I was looking up a poem from a book I'd gotten for an English class...I realized there was a whole site, official, freely available, compiled with all 188 poems of said book. With a bit from the author, implicitly giving his approval. Come on.
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May you please tell me the site and name of book?
They complain that the school doesn't pay them enough and then they charge their whole class $49.95 plus shipping for a book they will only mention four times afterwards
Interesting, in which country and region of the country do the complain? I met either first or second in my life, but the mixture of both
Those are unrelated issues.
In higher ed, we're required to use textbooks in our classes else we could lose accreditation and then everyones degree from our department would be worthless. But to address that cost issue, I assign my students the latest edition minus 1. $19.99 for textbooks is way more accessible than $137.
Meanwhile, we are underpaid, especially when you factor in that 7/10 arent tenure track, few of us even get any benefits, and we average around 40k a year if we are lucky enough to get full course loads all 3 semesters or get a research grant to cover the summer.
(Edit: these averages are for R1 institutions. Adding in the whole system makes it much worse)
Most of my teachers actually try to reduce unnecessary spending. It's often not them who even decide that you have to buy a book.
Maybe they peddle their book because they aren’t getting paid enough by the school. Maybe those two things are connected.
You say that like it's a contradiction but don't they make more sense together?
I like how he's more concerned with not seeing his students mental turmoil rather than the turmoil itself
I had a teacher who wrote a text book during a summer vacation just because he thought all other books on the subject were bad and expensive. Then he put like two shelves full of copies of the book in his office that students could borrow.
I ended up working for him for four years as a teacher’s assistant. Easily the best part of my college experience.
i always tried to find the pirated pdf and distribute it to my classmates. class solidarity comrades!
We do this lmao, but most of our teachers just send us their materials and what we’ll have to read.
Eyyy, not in college, but I will always sail the high seas!
Arg! All fare in the heart of sea arg!
This is not my PDF, *it's OUR PDF*
Same. It's how we resist
Cherry on the top: rarely references the book.
This reminds me of many years ago, I was lucky enough to have a psych teacher who not only told us we WERE allowed to use a pirated pdf of the otherwise $160 textbook but GAVE US THE FREAKIN' LINK IN THE SYLLABUS! Don't know how she got away with it the whole semester but everyone in that class loved her for it.
I tremendously appriacte it whenever the teacher emails us all the PDF link or goes through the trouble of buying multiple copies of the books so we all have one.
I remember in senior year of high school we were reading Frankenstein, and continued the story on our first day back from winter break. I forgot my copy and quickly found a pdf on my chromebook to follow along with. Teacher never noticed.
god i relate to this so hard. these teachers are so annoying.
"Rick, everything okay?"
"It will be after I drop this class."
One of my professor back then wrote a textbook but she instructed us to just borrow her own copy then secretly reproduce it. This was when digital copies are still not a major thing. She said it's already expensive because of the publisher and the school even had the audacity to make it MORE expensive.
I had a professor who made the two books she'd written, sold as a shrink-wrapped set, a requirement for the class. She never referenced them.
That's fucked up
🙃 Good lord
what the fuck
Had an professor who had just published his own textbook and it was awful, after the first exam he literally had to restructure the whole class so most of the class didn’t fail. Switched to tried and true examples NOT from his book.
He still teaches and it isn’t his book he teaches….
Those who bought it got scammed.
@@JulioLopez-xz5kx Was he "an" professor of English?
Well, at least he learned.
our old English teacher was photocopying the shit out of textbooks and lit crit casebooks and compiling them for us according to what we were studying, they had "do not reprint" written all along the margins but that man did not give a fuck, god bless
One semester, the book assigned for the course cost SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS. The professor actually had no idea and was happy to upload the necessary chapters for us once we let him know.
Bro are you still in school or something? How do you have such insider knowledge, lol
im becoming a lawyer
@@ManCarryingThing damn that's cool actually, in about 10 years you can turn this channel into another "lawyer reacts" channel i see your plan
@@ManCarryingThing do a video where you're saul goodman, DO IT!
@@ManCarryingThing same here!
@@ManCarryingThing Did you know that you have rights? Constitution says you do.
Why are we only allowed to buy from the school bookstore!!! So much truth!!
I had an English teacher who photocopied the entire play of Macbeth and King Lear. and she printed out the A5 size text onto A4 pages so we have space to annotate for every student in the class. One of the kids was partially blind so she printed it extra large for him and found him an audio book.
Pdfs are the biggest threat against these scummy book scams and I love it.
I like how the ending changed from a polite reminder to a desperate plee
This gives me PTSD flashbacks to that one time when one of my teachers asked us to read a book that was out of print and the only edition I was able to find cost like €40.
Damn, our books were like $70-100AUD each (often with multiple books needed each semester, x 4 for each class, so up to $1,000 worth of books a year). This was 10 years ago, basic business degree. Then a second-hand bookshop opened up on the other side of campus, cut it by half I think. It's ridiculous price-gouging. One time we even had a teacher get huffy at us for copying pdfs of the textbook when there were none to be bought, she was such an uptight, unpleasant woman. How do some people get jobs? Conversely, one super nice tutor copied out pdfs for us to all save money. He was awesome.
@@skullsaintdead Apparently I am one of the lucky ones. Jesus Christ!
Rick is such a mood tbh
Ah yes the classic “Give the school more money to buy a bunch of pages” trope.
I studied maths here in Germany and our Department really wasn't that big. Every single one of our Profs sent us articles and texts we needed as PDFs because they collectively thought it was stupid to have us buy those. Some Friends of mine studied business at the same Uni had to buy several 60-70€ textbooks that oftentimes the Profs of that courses wrote themselves ... 🙄 I mean... they were right in topic i guess... 😑
Lol, that's just the standard here in Brazil even in big Universities (private or public), we even share our files using the university own storage cloud system
I studied in Germany as well (social scienes /education) and the only book I had to buy was a collection of laws for like 30 euros. everything else we could either get from the library or as single chapter pdfs from our profs. I didn't know that some students spend so much money on books.
@@pleudumes same in argentina as well. i thought it was a common thing, like just normal to do, reading the comments I feel lucky
Damn I was hoping in other countries all textbooks would be paid for
I studied maths in Germany, as well. Never bought a book over 10€. Either the scripts were free tomdownload as a PDF or there would be selled in the first lecture for small money.
I had to pay 80 bucks for a book we didn't use once. It didn't even have a binding, it was just 3 hole punched and plastic wrapped.
I got suckered into a similar scam 20 years ago in college. Looking back, a lot of college courses are a waste. Now with TH-cam, pdfs, and Amazon books, you can get a better education by becoming an autodidact. Too bad back then those weren't really available.
@@JulioLopez-xz5kx Being an autodidact sounds great at all, but it's actually extremely difficult. Trying to study without any structure, no mandatory homework assignments, no tests or quizzes, nobody to ask questions to, so easy to skip a day and slack off, thinking you understand the material when you really don't, I can go on.
I agree with your sentiment, and I think college courses are overpriced, but there is a lot of thought and effort that goes into them.
Teacher: "Here is the serial number for the specific edition of Invisible Man. You punch it into Amazon or Google, it will be literally impossible for you to get a different version."
That one student: [buys the Invisible Man about an invisible man and not the one about racism]
"We'll be using roughly a fraction of the book but I want you to buy the entire book regardless."
i’m so glad i haven’t run into this kind of professor yet. the ones i’ve had so far will literally give us cheaper alternatives and tell us NOT to get them from the college bookstore lmao
I had a professor who actively encouraged getting older editions and/or "more available options." He was the best..
Truly am fighting for my life each semester trying to download book pdfs from sketchy websites
Most of my college teachers wrote their own books and that was the only one we could use. Some of them weren't bound too, so we couldn't return them if we didn't like the class within a week. I hated college it felt like an MLM
You could have just said a scam, I don't really see how college is like an MLM at all.
@@YahyaFalcon Because both of them are scams that trick people into thinking they're bettering themselves throwing away tons of money
@@popcultureoverdosed do you want to be operated on by self taught doctors or want your car designed by self taught engineers? I certainly wouldn't, sure, college might be a scam for practically everybody going into a non stem topic (say literature or philosophy, although law is an exception), but as far as medicine, law and stem are concerned, a degree is proof you know what you're doing and if you don't go to college you don't get it, therefore a non negligible amount of the population actually benefits from going to college, therefore it's not a scam, which means college is not like an MLM.
@@YahyaFalcon It's a scam because college should just be free. That way people can still get their credentials and not be stuck with debt for the rest of their lives
@@popcultureoverdosed
TL;DR I agree that private colleges and US colleges are a scam.
oh we're talking about US colleges and private colleges here? Oh yeah, those scam you out of your money big time, it's astounding, most other countries have free, public colleges though so that problem really only applies to american and private colleges in which case saying all colleges suffer from this problem doesn't really make sense to me.
That aggressive, desperate plea for a student to turn OFF their camera made me laugh so hard. Well done, sir!
It’s creepy this is so relatable. I’m a Graphic Design major and one of my professors told us to get this specific book. Amazon and other textbook companies didn’t carry it and I only found the edition last minute at a used bookstore.
The best professors were the ones who uploaded the whole thing on pdf.
Somebody clued me into z-library sophomore year, I haven't looked back since. Saved over $1K in books so far. Usually searchable PDFs you can download for free? Hell yeah. Knowledge should be free
isn't there full of virus
Sounds like an investment to me
Hahahh that last part killed me
These classes exist in an endless limbo where they are trapped in a constant time loop doomed to sit through classes over and over until the sun supernovas
Everytime I see or hear something like this it reminds me of that story of the prof who wrote a book but hated his publishing company so much that he gave his students illegal pdfs of his own book.
In one of my classes, someone posted a link to the PDF in the Zoom chat while the teacher was explaining this
It makes me so happy that pirating textbooks is so normalized that my CS professors would even open the semester explaining, “You will need this textbook for the homeworks and labs and it can be found at the bookstore, but it can also be found… elsewhere if you know where to look ;)”
Yes please more zoom class skits. They are the only thing keeping me from pulling my hair out whenever the TA asks something and nobody speaks up for a solid 20 seconds (so much longer than it sounds)
Almost every time a teacher told us to use the textbook, I am always able to pass the class without taking it out from the box.
$69 with tax right?
i was waiting for this
rick got that ✨2022✨ ~energy~
Him downing that bottle of vodka in a class zoom call is the most relatable thing ever
One note is always ask your college library if they have the book. It might be a year old copy but they often have one or two available for you to make scans of the pages. Honestly saved me thousands in book rentals.
I literally have to get this book for my literature class, please stop spying on me!
Rick isn't drinking because of the price he drinking because he has to read the most boring novel ever written.
My favourite is when teachers send their students on a quest for a specific edition which has been out of print for years.
it's so weird to have graduated from school just before covid, because now all I see about student culture is the whole online class thing, of which I had no concept of
I had no idea anyone even did this. Every class I've taught/TAed only had a "suggested reading," books available freely online by the creator/themselves, or had an online textbook that had exercises bundled in for weekly reading or whatever. And whenever I had a class in my undergrad with a required textbook, the professors didn't give two shits where you got it from.
Rick was being super Hemingway-like, to a degree, when told he couldn't just stick to a used paperback of Papa's greatest novel
“and I will not explain… further.” This was just perfect, your sense of humor is just the BEST!!
Also: “The store’s got two copies of this super niche book but I expect all 25 of you to get it on time.”
From the passive-aggressive squinting during “if you’re reading a different edition”, to the subtle smile that follows the sigh with, “don’t even think about getting the ebook”, I felt you too hard on this😭
On a different note, I love your mustache👌🏽
In my literature lectures we'd actually discuss the covers of the various versions of the books we were reading as my professor didn't care which version we bought.
The description ties the skit together really well
I will always love the math professor who wrote his own textbook and handed it out on free discs to the whole class
I had to buy three books which could only be accessed from a website. They were gracious enough to allow 30% of each book to be downloaded.
However, they didn't disable copying the entire text.
edit: Talk to your classmates. Buy one copy of the book, scan it, share it.
Someone just Rick rolled Rick 'n' number of times
I downloaded the PDF of the global edition for one class which was ALMOST the same book, but had an extra chapter I didn't know about until it was the wrong Chapter 13. After failing that reading check, I borrowed another student's book to cross-reference the table of contents and had no issues the rest of the semester.
been feelin stuck lately, but binging your videos brings me such joy. you’re so funny and cleaver. so glad you exist 🥹
Reminds me of how I had to spend 150$+ per self-written book in my law classes, and that's apart of the other law books we needed for each class. I still have a box of all those books and could not even re-sell them for a couple bucks because newer editions came out. Forcing your students to buy your newest edition simply for a few words changed in the book is just shitty.
This is so un accommodating for disabled students, too.
Some of us NEED a pdf so we can zoom in and fucking SEE it
At the risk of sounding like a troll, can't you just...bring the book closer to your face?
teachers: (sends out list of required textbooks for the semester that are worth more than a few months' rent)
also teachers the very next day: i hope you have all bought your textbooks by now
Professor: you need this book, it also includes a special access code to the online portal where you’ll do your homework, create discussion posts, and take quizzes
Student: regretfully spends $199 on the 4th edition, redeems the code, and uses the book as a paperweight for the rest of the semester and gets an A
That was my whole college experience except for four classes.
@@nicoleackerman205 those four classes sound great haha
@@JasonandaCamera One of them wasn't because it was algebra and I suck at math the he only grade tests and quizzes and some how I passed with a 70. This professor was apparently either you loved him or you hated him one. Some people said he was the best teacher they ever had and taught them so much about mathematics and other are like he did not teach jack.
Hei I would like to remind you that we have an MCT Discord Server where we buy only the books available only on school, and have our cameras turned off, unless Jake says otherwise.
CAMERAS OFF
@@ManCarryingThing You say it, and it's done.
And there's always less copies available than there are participants in the class.