Stupid Things College Students Do

[thedarknight]

1)getting really drunk one night
2)waking up to the horror that you accidentally withdrew from all your classes....
3) explaining to your professors what happened

[hmkpoker]

Paying for a college education.

[Tony_P]

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The bookstores are not a part of the university.

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My experience is that if there is one bookstore, it is owned and operated by the school. A big hint here is if the bookstore is in a university building, like the student union.

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Most college/university bookstores are operated by private companies and are located on campus property. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers operates over 1,000 campus bookstores, including Harvard, Vassar, BU, Columbia and Yale. Follett Corp operates over 700, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Polytechnic, St Johns, Smith, and U-Mass.

[CORed]

It's been a long time since I went to college, but when I did, there was an "official" bookstore on campus. I believe that was operated by a private company, probably paying plenty of rent or a percentage of sales or profits to the University. There were also one or two independant bookstores off campus, which carried most of the required texts, and generally sold new books cheaper and had a lot more used books available because they payed students more for used books. College textbooks are low volume items, which means unit costs for printing are higher. Also, of course, they have a captive market. If you're going to take the course, you have to buy the book, so bookstores, wholesalers and publishers charge more because they can. Look in the Yellow pages (or online equivalent) for an independant bookstore in town. Shop around. Check classifieds in student and local paper for private parites selling books you need. You can probably do better than the campus bookstore.

[Keith Knutsson]

How very true!