a lot of people hate textbooks. And don't get me wrong, I totally see where they are coming from. But i secretly love textbooks. Maybe its my inner nerd coming out in me, but every semester, nothing thrills me more than standing outside the co-op, checking the text lists, writing down my prescribed texts, and then entering the store, and buying every one (even if we don't actually need them). There is just something about owning the textbook that is, i don't know, safe? Eg, I know they are always there if i need to look something up at the last minute. And more pretensiously, I like having them there, so it looks like I actually know something about something. I suppose I think they are kind of impressive. Like when people come over, maybe they are intimidated when they see these monstrous texts about things they can't even pronounce ("what is biomolecular?") and I think that makes me feel good. Thats incredibly orchidaceous, i know, so i apologise.
Having said that, however, I still have a soft spot for textbooks, and think I always will.
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That's the downside to drama, you don't get textbooks which make you look incredibly intelligent... but then again you get the trade-off of looking extremely cultured, which works too =D
The other downside being that we have nowhere near as many textbooks as you. I bouoght one this semester, and that was for my FTV elective >.>
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