The Start of School means....

I get to spend LOTS of money!!! Can you believe the PRICE of books!! I am sooo tired of paying upwards of $500 a semester for books. Its so frustrating. The really awful part about it is that it really is not proportionate to the number or difficulty of the class either. In fact, the semester I had the least amount of classes I paid the most in books.

As any college student knows, getting textbooks is a frustrating process. I didn't mind it so much in undergrad because I could almost always find my books cheaper online. I love half.com and amazon.com. But with law books its so much different. I think the biggest problem is that many students don't sell their books back. I have recently put my law books up on half.com and have already sold most of them. But when I go to look for mine, I find that they are more expensive than what the bookstore sold them to me for.

Oh well...what can a girl do? I mean, I have to have these books...its not like in undergrad where you were lucky if the professor mentioned the book...I have said that at least I have read most of my $150 books mostly from cover to cover. But still.

So anyway M decided that going the Thesis route to getting his masters finished was just not going to work out. He's had many problems with his 'machine' that he was doing 'experiments' on (can you tell I really had no idea what he was doing???). So great. He assured me that his company gives a 75% tuition remission and we'd only have to pay $250 for his class that he has to take. Except that he told me today, that we pay first and then the company reimburses us if he gets a C or above. UGH!! What makes it all worse is that he didn't file a FAFSA and the class isnt' enough credit hours to get loan money anyway. *sigh*

Plus the other really crappy thing about this class is that its ALL YEAR! Which sucks because the Spring semester is going to be so hard for us. Oh well... I am sure it will all work itself out in the end...but sometimes...MAN!!!