On schoolbooks and cartels.
--WARNING-- --WARNING-- --A RANT APPROACHES--
I feel robbed. As if I was a victim of modern highway robbery, for lack of any better terms to go by. Once again, with no legal method through which to coerce equal application of services to all, I am at the mercy of the bookstore, its quotas, and how it is seemingly completely incapable (Or would a better term be unwilling?) of providing any service to the students who have exams later in the week than Monday.
Clearly, this must mean that in order to get any money for books that I want to be rid of, as well as the luxury of having to carry less around, I must either have an eidetic memory, or enough time and lack of anything to do to actively and perfectly memorize the entirety of the relevant text to the course. Or have the (mis-)fortune of having all of my exams proper scheduled to commence on Monday.
However, I do so happen to lack any of the above preventative measures. This, combined with the fact that the quotas, which are clearly invisible to all but the computers, appear to be at least marginally less than the total number of books that are actually in the hands of students on campus, if not significantly so, suggests the notion that the bookstore--and potentially other college bookstores across the nation--are ultimately a form of organized crime--run by some underground cartel.
Okay, the cartel/crime deal may be an exaggeration, but I feel this is simply an act to rip off students who are simply attempting to get money for food/bus fare immediately, on-campus, and are simply trying to make the most of the hellish week that contains such things as finals. Like me.
I feel robbed. As if I was a victim of modern highway robbery, for lack of any better terms to go by. Once again, with no legal method through which to coerce equal application of services to all, I am at the mercy of the bookstore, its quotas, and how it is seemingly completely incapable (Or would a better term be unwilling?) of providing any service to the students who have exams later in the week than Monday.
Clearly, this must mean that in order to get any money for books that I want to be rid of, as well as the luxury of having to carry less around, I must either have an eidetic memory, or enough time and lack of anything to do to actively and perfectly memorize the entirety of the relevant text to the course. Or have the (mis-)fortune of having all of my exams proper scheduled to commence on Monday.
However, I do so happen to lack any of the above preventative measures. This, combined with the fact that the quotas, which are clearly invisible to all but the computers, appear to be at least marginally less than the total number of books that are actually in the hands of students on campus, if not significantly so, suggests the notion that the bookstore--and potentially other college bookstores across the nation--are ultimately a form of organized crime--run by some underground cartel.
Okay, the cartel/crime deal may be an exaggeration, but I feel this is simply an act to rip off students who are simply attempting to get money for food/bus fare immediately, on-campus, and are simply trying to make the most of the hellish week that contains such things as finals. Like me.