Senior Citizens Guess The Price Of College Textbooks
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Күн бұрынCan Debbie and Mo correctly guess the price of college textbooks today?
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@valeriarojas3993 4 жыл бұрын
My jaw dropped when she said “the most I spent on a textbook was $25” I damn near cried
@SebastienMichel-sebltm 4 жыл бұрын
Valeria Rojas Do remember that $25 in 1970 (which around the time I'm guessing those people went to college) is about $166 today
@rm6379 4 жыл бұрын
She said TOTAL for a semester 😭
@saberur66 4 жыл бұрын
@@SebastienMichel-sebltm dude my cheapest book was like 200 bucks
@girlofanimation 4 жыл бұрын
@@SebastienMichel-sebltm , but wages haven't changed much since the 70s
@siunnicheallaigh2055 4 жыл бұрын
Are textbooks insanely expensive in just the US or something? All the brand new, European editions of university-level science textbooks I've had to use so far have been max €100, mostly around €75. I rarely have to buy them though because my university has a massive library.
@leajnd2121 4 жыл бұрын
Love how they cant afford the real books so they printed the covers on sheets that they put in random books
@recoil53 4 жыл бұрын
It isn't a matter of not being able to afford it. Why pay for it when it's only a prop?
@Venomonomonom 4 жыл бұрын
Buying them used probably impossible to get a hold of
@mohsink4590 4 жыл бұрын
Buy the books, make video and donate the books. Easy.
@RepInt210 4 жыл бұрын
Printed in greyscale
@justincheatham3899 4 жыл бұрын
@@recoil53 it's just the fact that they pretended. Video would have been fine with no props and just the picture being shown.
@elmagnificodep 4 жыл бұрын
My anatomy and physiology instructor didn't require a textbook. She said the human body is the same as it has been and gave us a link to a free eBook. She summarized what we needed to know in PowerPoint slides and had us pay $20 for them. She would leave some things missing in the slides on the printout, so you had to attend class and fill in the blanks.
@natphil8377 4 жыл бұрын
elmagnificodep everything sounds okay except the $20 part. Why would your instructor need to pocket money from students?
@jairoherrera4040 4 жыл бұрын
@@natphil8377 Better than paying $100-200
@shawnaf9356 4 жыл бұрын
Man, wish mine had been that nice. I have two books and one I haven't even opened yet in the first two months.
@psychospartan3007 4 жыл бұрын
She’s a good professor
@Ikajo 4 жыл бұрын
@@natphil8377 Paper ain't free you know.
@BrittanyViolet 4 жыл бұрын
Is anyone going to tell them the millennials are mostly out of college now??
@abigailcook4243 4 жыл бұрын
Britt Locklin hey, some of us got a late start! /cries
@sierraandcali9589 4 жыл бұрын
And in debt. Wages haven't gone up lol
@Osteoja 4 жыл бұрын
College debt still follows them around.
@ladytimeoin 4 жыл бұрын
I'm considered a mature age student (I'm an older millennial)
@rocklesson86 4 жыл бұрын
I got a late start.
@Hannacalebclark 4 жыл бұрын
I wish more boomers knew how expensive college is today. These two had a vague idea that it was more but they were clearly shocked my how much more.
@Doctors_TARDIS 4 жыл бұрын
My grandfather put himself through school while sending money home WORKING AT A GAS STATION. You could not do that today
@maplemeep 4 жыл бұрын
How do you know?
@Hannacalebclark 4 жыл бұрын
@@Doctors_TARDIS If only. I can't even wrap my head around that
@ladyrose1993 4 жыл бұрын
@@Doctors_TARDIS totally unrelated but I love your name and pic.
@agees924 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, then we may get some real change. They think that because they paid for college working part time minimum wage then that’s what everyone can do.
@QuijanoPhD 4 жыл бұрын
"Med school comes cheap now" Cool. Have them guess tuition.
@FC-hj9ub Жыл бұрын
😂
@bizzarono1 4 жыл бұрын
When I was in college one of the Professors wrote a book and required all of his students to have it. They said he never referred to it a single time.
@ezra55595 4 жыл бұрын
Yup, par for the course; welcome to academia!
@Konpeimimi 4 жыл бұрын
Same, and for a gen ed class too.
@chanchanoo 4 жыл бұрын
We all had that one professor. I stopped buying books after the first semester
@natashaestes154 4 жыл бұрын
We never referred to our White Collar Crime textbook. Don't remember how much it was though
@JaslineXD 4 жыл бұрын
One time I found a free link for a book I needed for my class. I thought I was doing the right thing by telling my entire class that I could share the free link, the book costs almost $200. My professor screamed at me and told me to never do that, well one of the books required was his own book, so he told me that we don’t know how hard they work on those books for someone to just get it for free. I didn’t care I still shared the link because most of us are struggling in college. He held a grudge on me and gave me a C in class, there was a 25% overall participation grade and he gave me a 0, I always participated but I guess he knew I couldn’t prove that.
@myrandomtantrum 4 жыл бұрын
Girl you should've drop that class. That's a no good class.
@MinXuanNg 4 жыл бұрын
Didn’t you tell the school management about it? That’s a case for abuse of power
@gp7493 4 жыл бұрын
I would’ve started swingin’
@savannahcrowley4299 4 жыл бұрын
Worked hard or not, the book isn’t worth $200. A lot of materials in textbooks are ended up passed down (from older books) and recreated anyways.
@coolfred9083 4 жыл бұрын
Grading should not be that easy to rig
@fazzle1 4 жыл бұрын
They keep saying Millennials, but most people who are just starting in college aren't Millennials anymore.
@Johnnykamlon 4 жыл бұрын
All millennials today are at the age bracket of 23 to 36.
@twylabobette2012 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm Gen Z and I'm in my first year of university
@kallandar13 4 жыл бұрын
Med school, tho...
@camjoziboy 4 жыл бұрын
tdudleypdx they’d be in their final years by now
@kallandar13 4 жыл бұрын
CamJoziBoy You’re assuming all of us will have a speedy, linear progression through higher ed. Some of us didn’t.
@mikkurzhal7390 4 жыл бұрын
The calculus book is cheaper than it was when I was told to buy it. Luckily first day of class my prof goes "calculus has not changed in 50 years guys here's an old edition pdf"
@SuperAmazingNoob 4 жыл бұрын
Higher level calculus has changed but stuff like calc1 2 3 and diff eq hasnt
@mikkurzhal7390 4 жыл бұрын
@@SuperAmazingNoob well seeing as how I didn't major in math I only went up to calc 3 before I finished my science gen ed requirements and tossed my math notebook in a bonfire
@timonix2 4 жыл бұрын
I bought my calculus for $100 in the uni book store. It was the latest edition at the time.
@sasukeuchiha998 4 жыл бұрын
My prof just made his own textbook and sold it to the students for 25 each print and the money went to fund undergraduates to get into mathematics as a field of study.
@khango6138 2 жыл бұрын
@@sasukeuchiha998 what a legend
@lousy5149 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone else saw that most of the books are from McGraw Hill.
@layaqui 4 жыл бұрын
Lousy it’s almost like they have a monopoly
@rodneypratt4324 4 жыл бұрын
That was the first thing I noticed
@terrestrialtoker 4 жыл бұрын
Or Pearson and we all know Pearson is like the WORST educator
@DarkComatose15 4 жыл бұрын
Lousy or Pearson
@ejaaz7260 4 жыл бұрын
It's the same in India
@finalbox4416 4 жыл бұрын
They should have high school students guess the prices next
@powderfoo 4 жыл бұрын
they’d never go to college then lmao
@Theonedogthatsleeps 4 жыл бұрын
I can see the tears already
@havingteawiththedevil 4 жыл бұрын
Oh god good luck lol
@Vekna666 4 жыл бұрын
Please god
@sarahj6795 4 жыл бұрын
Lol, why do you want to watch children cry?
@adamguzik6737 4 жыл бұрын
Ngl for americans it's probably cheaper to study in the UK than their own country
@MercenaryPen 4 жыл бұрын
Germany is even cheaper than the UK for foreign students from what I've heard
@rickpopken9250 4 жыл бұрын
@@MercenaryPen in Denmark u get paid to go to school, that must be even cheaper
@shhhh6174 4 жыл бұрын
LITERALLY EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD IS CHEAPER TO STUDY IN
@roguesirena 4 жыл бұрын
I may have to send my children across the pond for college and travel. If it’s bad now, in 18yrs when my twins graduate it’ll be impossible.
@heartsing6459 4 жыл бұрын
Mercenary Pen you need to have a certain level of fluency to be qualified for the cheaper tuition. it’s why im taking German now.
@donovanwilson840 4 жыл бұрын
And this is y I go to community college Fun fact: in Tennessee, you can go to community college for 2 years for free if u do 8 hours of community service a semester
@Wheelygonzales 4 жыл бұрын
WTF! COLLEGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR FREE? IM MOVING TO TENNESSEE!!
@jsanders2610 4 жыл бұрын
Who's paying for it then?
@donovanwilson840 4 жыл бұрын
J Sanders taxes
@jsanders2610 4 жыл бұрын
@@donovanwilson840 the tax payers huh?
@clarewhite3004 4 жыл бұрын
My community college books now cost about as much as my liberal arts school books did 10 years ago. The tuition is the difference-maker for me.
@turtle-ot2qc 4 жыл бұрын
"Med school comes cheap now"
@pale9242 4 жыл бұрын
Cjj23 • 83 years ago I laughed so hard when I heard that
@jingles1176 4 жыл бұрын
It hurt when she said that. T.T my class average debt was 200-300k
@mercce6750 4 жыл бұрын
Not meds tho XD.
@netclips4k 4 жыл бұрын
*laughs in $200,000
@loveyourflyingv 4 жыл бұрын
I loved this until the end. "FILM, MILLENIALS!" Once again they've got their generations crossed. I'm in my thirties and was still processing on film in photography class in high school. Social media didn't even exist yet at that time. The price of textbook rising 88% between 2006-2016 literally made me want to vomit. I had to pause the video to make sure I'd read that right. I'm just glad that it seems there are a lot of better services to get around that at least.
@shawnaf9356 4 жыл бұрын
Also in my thirties. I get tired of being lumped in with people half my age, like we all have the same knowledge and experiences.
@mollyapteros 4 жыл бұрын
Same. Born in 1990 and when I took photojournalism in high school we had a proper dark room for learning to process photographs.
@2014wolfy 4 жыл бұрын
Also, traditional track college seniors are exclusively Gen Z right now. If you went the normal 4 year track without interruption and are a millenial, you have been in the normal workforce for quite some time.
@Cbear139 4 жыл бұрын
Not to say that Gen Z kids are idiots either. Born in 98, currently in my last semester of college rn (thank god). But everyone I know does know what film is, lots of us who took photography have used it. We also know about rotary phones and landlines ok I promise😂 just because we are proficient with modern technology doesn’t mean we are completely incompetent when it comes to everything else.
@ladyrose1993 4 жыл бұрын
I'm 26, born in 1993, and the camera my family had only used film....
@charlottesgirlfriend 4 жыл бұрын
“ i think my most expensive textbook was probably $25 “ wow
@Konpeimimi 4 жыл бұрын
Thats the price of a used short novel referenced in a gen ed literature class if you're lucky now ; o ;
@recoil53 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, but from what I've been told in the '70s a Big Mac, fries, and Coke cost less than $2. We have it from the Tonight Show that a Lambroghini was $30K.
@Konpeimimi 4 жыл бұрын
@@recoil53 Minimum wage doubled and the cost of things in general more than doubled. That's STILL an issue. People making x2-x2.5 more an hour but textbooks cost x10 more
@Cassxowary 4 жыл бұрын
it’s lovely me it was like 30 and it was in 2005-6
@Cassxowary 4 жыл бұрын
recoil53 I went to school last in 2005-6 and the most expensive was about 30...
@natasharules770 4 жыл бұрын
The moment i saw 'McGraw hill' *instant fury*
@abigailcimini5501 4 жыл бұрын
My nursing fundamentals textbook for a one-semester class cost $800 and they're over here freaking out lmao
@Cassxowary 4 жыл бұрын
Abigail Cimini because it’s a lot and 800 is insane (if the paper is recycled)!
@alexobrien4466 4 жыл бұрын
Good God $800?! I realize I went to nursing school a long time ago, but wow. Good luck in school. It gets better on the outside of the boards.
@boohwa 4 жыл бұрын
My nursing school makes us pay around 1,600 for ebooks ( for all our books) over pricing us 😢
@angie3999 4 жыл бұрын
...and then you try and sell your "old" text books the next semester but by then the publishing company has released another edition and profs. updated their required text list to stay "relevant and competitive" so the textbook you bought for $438.52 is worth $8 and a half eaten nutrigrain bar and you cant even sell it to people that are taking the SAME CLASS with the SAME PROFESSOR the next semester
@patryder8923 4 жыл бұрын
Textbook publishers make small changes almost every year, sometimes omissions to invalidate page number references, to eliminate the competition from almost identical previous editions. If they plan not to publish a new edition for a few years, they increase the price, then rent the book to you, and you can rent a subscription to online supplements. Some community colleges offer courses with the same content, but using inexpensive, sometimes self-published materials.
@FagOfTheForest 4 жыл бұрын
When she said "poor millennials" I laughed. Not that people older than 22 can't go to college but the youngest millennials are 24 right now lmao. We's onto the Zillennials now, baby. 19-23 year olds. And Gen Z will start college this year (18 and younger).
@OneMoreWord1 4 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I'm in the UK and doing a double honours. I spent just under £100 for all my books and that's only cause I bought em new.
@skzsh00ter31 4 жыл бұрын
😪pray for us we are not ready
@HackersSun 4 жыл бұрын
Yeaaaaah we had a small shot, not a big one but a small shot You guys tho :c I'm sorry 🤗
@hannahbatts6068 2 жыл бұрын
tf is a zillennial lmao
@wolfieisacat13 Жыл бұрын
@@hannahbatts6068 i assume someone on the cusp.
@chanelectricx 4 жыл бұрын
“Med school comes cheap now” lolololol girl, jokes.
@KittiChan1 4 жыл бұрын
I hardly paid anything for my books when I went to college in germany. Most of them were gifted to us. I only paid for some books that weren't obligatory and even then I never paid more than 20 Euro per books.
@MilwaukeeNorth418 4 жыл бұрын
So you're telling me... I can run a underground college book selling op and make bank? Excuse me as I quit my job.
@jamesricker3997 4 жыл бұрын
Some guy in Boston actually did that. He bought used books for more turn the colleges and he turned around and sold them cheaper than the colleges. The colleges got together and bought him out. College students can still go on eBay
@lflor8617 4 жыл бұрын
That is what I do now for 4 years. I ended up buying myself a $5,000 car with the books I sold in about 9 months last year. Totally worth it.
@sissinoklahoma2057 4 жыл бұрын
Fed 2 kids while a stay at home mom just from the proceeds from selling used textbooks online for 6 years.
@vki14 4 жыл бұрын
Yep and that's why I waited until I have attend my classes to ask professors whether we actually need the textbooks. 85% will say no. 😅
@peggyallen326 4 жыл бұрын
yes! i know here in australia you dont use them in half the classes, or the lecturer sets up a cheap version online. please - no one buy a single book unless you KNOW you need to!!!
@islandsunset 4 жыл бұрын
That's very specific. 85%?? Did you actually use your time to calculate the probability?
@vki14 4 жыл бұрын
@@islandsunset I simply counted the number of textbooks and my professors' replies.😅 You can sometimes find books online for free or inexpensive prices.
@dominiricansabor 4 жыл бұрын
When they opened up that law journal my law school nightmares creeped up... Spent at least $1500 per semester on books... *real tears*
@ss11111ss 4 жыл бұрын
u a lawyer now?
@islandsunset 4 жыл бұрын
You should charge $1500 per case. 😁
@hirenjain 4 жыл бұрын
Omg I can't imagine studying in the US ! High tuition fees, expensive healthcare and this too !!! In Norway(where I live) healthcare is free and even college level education is free. I can't imagine life in US
@nikelepz410 4 жыл бұрын
KZfaq: Do you wanna watch old people guessing price of books that you've never heard about and you are never gonna come across? Me: *Hell yea!*
@shyam9271 4 жыл бұрын
In india for the whole cost of these books i can finish my entire degree
@LKBizzy 4 жыл бұрын
From what I have experienced, it’s mostly the science and such textbooks that cost the most. My chemistry textbook was one of the most expensive books I’ve ever purchased and now it gets used as a laptop stand.
@AllieDuguid100 4 жыл бұрын
I bought a used french textbook that ended up not being a real book, it was a giant stack of hole punched papers. It was the most expensive book I've gotten.
@mattymrj01 4 жыл бұрын
my tuition at my uni in the netherlands is $1k for the first year, and then $2k a year for the next 3 years, and per YEAR all the books may not exceed a total of $1k. Now i feel lucky lol
@LoisAdore 4 жыл бұрын
Yes my tuition for everything was $8k a little more expensive than normal but I go to art school and I got the materials and MacBook from school so that's all in that price, and yes we are very lucky to not pay a lot of money when it comes to education!
@pri.sci.lla. 4 жыл бұрын
You should feel very lucky!
@WashWashRevoluti0n 4 жыл бұрын
In Australia the government subsidises most of the uni fees (about 3/4) and puts the rest out as a loan that you only have to start paying once you earn like $55k a year (a small percentage is deducted from your earnings) The student contribution depends on what category your course falls into, either 7k (e.g. Nursing), 9k or 11k (e.g. Law and medicine) per year. However our poor international students pay atleast 5x that, they get treated so badly!
@peggyallen326 4 жыл бұрын
@@WashWashRevoluti0n i don't mind the international students paying more, it just makes sense because they won't be using the education to contribute to australia. And i don't mean just financially, just in general they aren't going to be here so why should our tax payers educate them?
@heykaylajayne 4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome and you should feel very lucky! My school was on the quarter system as opposed to a semester system. On average my textbooks per quarter were between $800-900+ total and my yearly tuition (not including mandatory campus housing, parking permits, meal plans, facility fees, lab fees etc.) was right around $48,000 per year.
@RoosjeEnTruffel 4 жыл бұрын
I went to university in Belgium (highly recommended), the most expensive book I can remember was €60, and it did come from the USA. We were outraged by this price :p
@pineapple1784 4 жыл бұрын
Me hearing the guy went to Sac State: *remembers my rejection letter I got yesterday*
@turtle-ot2qc 4 жыл бұрын
Always remember to buy them online.
@donovanwilson840 4 жыл бұрын
My professor said that “if the book store prices are too high, you can always go to the store that starts with an A”
@faber_1500 4 жыл бұрын
I buy my books online which is cheaper or borrow from the library and photocopy/scan it 😅
@JOSEMartinez-go3uc 4 жыл бұрын
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@JOSEMartinez-go3uc 4 жыл бұрын
@@faber_1500 GOOD LOVES US
@havingteawiththedevil 4 жыл бұрын
I tried for my one class however it was custom made with my instructors name engraved on it. $65😰
@SciFactsYT118 4 жыл бұрын
Random fact: Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the fact
@thefourshowflip 4 жыл бұрын
You’re the hero we did not deserve...😝
@gaitachi3256 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Really helpful. 👍
@niteflitetheknitter 4 жыл бұрын
Campaign for your schools to use open source and Creative Commons texts! Textbook companies court teachers and schools by making the teachers editions complimentary.
@kaye53431 4 жыл бұрын
The fact that there’s a book for retail management....
@damiiiiiiiii 4 жыл бұрын
Bruh I’m going to the university I’m crying in poor rn
@Cassxowary 4 жыл бұрын
Either work or don’t go (at least yet)
@damiiiiiiiii 4 жыл бұрын
Herta Schneider it’s my last semester bsjsjsjsj so I’m basically done
@gp7493 4 жыл бұрын
Library genesis (google it) is where you can find most textbooks online for free. Good luck :)
@kubak3381 Жыл бұрын
Her most expensive book cost $25 and when she learns that a book costs $55 she just goes "med school comes cheap now" 💀
@elizakhin3826 4 жыл бұрын
Who else is scrolling through the comments while watching the video?
@Theonedogthatsleeps 4 жыл бұрын
I have found e-books for all my classes. So instead of paying ~$400, I paid $80
@mayanknegi9167 4 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were also into writing books. 😂😂
@nandithas3001 4 жыл бұрын
They chose the most adorable people for this!
@pri.sci.lla. 4 жыл бұрын
Thankful I have scholarships and grants to cover my tuition and books. I work to pay for my living expenses but yes books are very expensive however I find that you barely use them. Try to find a used book, get a pdf or see if your schools library has one!
@elj5381 4 жыл бұрын
All my textbooks were either from library or internet, some given to us in pdf by teachers, tho there were some teachers who highly suggested to by a textbook (usually written by themselves), but overall not buying/reading them wouldn't affect that much... But I live in Ukraine, so we have really different educational experiences from USA.
@Lisabobisa 4 жыл бұрын
And I almost cried when I had to buy a book for 45€ for a class a few semesters back 😅 For everything else we got the important texts collected and printed or as ebooks for either free or up to 15€
@Hulachowdown 4 жыл бұрын
I remember buying my books first semester of first year.... I think I had a panic attack when I saw how much I was paying. I quickly figured out sneaky ways to save money so that I would actually have money to go out and have fun.
@Kirschmuffin1215 4 жыл бұрын
These prices are insane. I am a lawstudent and our textbooks tend to be on the more expensive side, but the maximum amount I have paid for one book is about 85$. It’s usually between 30 and 60$.
@lina_ann 4 жыл бұрын
This makes me so thankful for being in the UK. When I went to college they gave us a choice when it came to textbooks. We could've used the college ones but had to return them at the end of the year with no damage or you could've bought your own and highlighted in that. A lot of people bought their own to write in and it wasn't bad since you could generally get a copy for under £35
@quentins5692 11 ай бұрын
They actually got a lot closer than I thought they would lol
@mahamadsulthan5966 4 жыл бұрын
We get books from library and book bank (engineering textbooks Mc Graw Hill)
@marcoramirez1991 4 жыл бұрын
When I was going to a community college back in 2011 my most expensive one was $300. It was a huge mathbook too big to carry. which I never used because I always used the one on reserve at the library but I had to buy it for an online access code
@PinoyPapoy 4 жыл бұрын
Cengage Learning is fixing this issue by offering a subscription for their textbooks, Cengage Unlimited. Anyone could get 4-month access to Cengage Unlimited for $120, and 12-months for $180. If you're not into e-books, you can rent a book for 8 bucks.
@smiley32190art 4 жыл бұрын
bless these two
@jullinara2976 2 жыл бұрын
They had it so good with the prices of everything:')
@emPtysp4ce 2 жыл бұрын
The worst part of it is that it's not expensive because of the book quality, it's expensive because you need the homework software key that comes with a new copy
@bessh2501 4 жыл бұрын
God, I’ll never forget having to buy a special edition of an engineering textbook made SPECIFICALLY FOR MY COLLEGE. $350 down the drain.
@sugandhsood5287 4 жыл бұрын
Is it a requirement for you to buy? Are you guys not allowed to just photocopy?
@bessh2501 4 жыл бұрын
sug 183 I mean, technically not, but it was something like 450 pages long. Not super practical to make a copy of something that big.
@sugandhsood5287 4 жыл бұрын
@@bessh2501 Ahh, I see. Over here, we usually just get the relevant portions photocopied because rarely are we ever required to read the entire book for one topic. Rather, we would usually have a lot of small readings from different authors for one topic. 🤔😶 Different systems, I guess?
@bessh2501 4 жыл бұрын
sug 183 Oh yeah, for sure! I feel like most classes in American universities are designed to *make* you buy your own copy of a textbook- they put out new editions every few years with almost no changes except moving around practice problems, so you can’t follow along in class/never know if you’re doing the right problems for homework. And then professors can assign you to buy a book that THEY WROTE AND ARE GETTING PROFITS FROM, which just seems totally unethical.
@sugandhsood5287 4 жыл бұрын
@@bessh2501 Wow, that's horrible. I feel bad for you kids. 😶 It's really unethical to profit of students who already are paying so much tuition fees (which apparently is crazy high again there)
@BionicleFreek99 Жыл бұрын
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard $25.
@johanahlen91 4 жыл бұрын
Is this for real? I live in Sweden and though it was super expensive but "introduction to fil history is 65 dollars here. Any one who need anything we can ship it for half the price then!"
@saberur66 2 жыл бұрын
Debs having too much fun
@toringuyen6479 4 жыл бұрын
I would like to appreciate their personality.
@Thalymor 4 жыл бұрын
They probably wouldn't believe it, but my photography classes also required film.
@stephaniechilders5176 2 жыл бұрын
Do “guessing housing prices” next!
@fabulous_twink6636 4 жыл бұрын
“Poor millennials, but debbies winning” xD I lost it
@AnjaneeM777 4 жыл бұрын
I once paid $200+ for a biology textbook and I tried to resell it to a used bookstore right next to my campus and they said that they can buy it for $0.01 yup a penny. Because it wasn't the newest edition anymore even though all the information was the same
@hikari482 4 жыл бұрын
I once bought some textbooks for class that I needed and I went to sell them back to the used textbook shop and they said they couldn't even buy them anymore because they're "too used to buy" I literally bought them for that semester and the semester just ended ...
@AnjaneeM777 4 жыл бұрын
@@hikari482 I believe it
@lauren3010 2 жыл бұрын
Libgen was a hero when I was in college. Found most of my textbooks online for free. Barely paid for anything when I found it lol
@crimenationlove-254 4 жыл бұрын
Debbie basically cheering when she wins reminded me of my mother 😂😂
@chocolatereigns 4 жыл бұрын
I went to a small private school that generally used the same edition of the textbook for gen-eds for years in a row so that you could almost always get the textbook from someone who'd taken it before you. On top of that, the school was small enough that you often knew upperclassmen in your program and you could buy their books for degree-specific classes. I rarely had to buy books new.
@sofire6664 4 жыл бұрын
We need more Draw-offs with Kevin and Jackie! :)
@hirenjain 4 жыл бұрын
In my country the Government provides the basic books in schools and colleges. They are of very good quality and only for about $10-20 MAX
@buildtherobots 4 жыл бұрын
My best deal on a textbook was for a microeconomics class that allowed use of a textbook 2 editions older than the current one so I got it for $0.28 off Amazon. The worst textbook experience was biochemistry which was like $300.00 and they didn't tell us until the first day of class that you didn't have to buy it and it was not returnable if you took the plastic wrapper off. They also neglected to mention needing to purchase a reader specific to that class that could only be purchased from the school bookstore.
@daniellecole7940 4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the price of the access codes 😂 That's another $100
@DavidHurtadoVEVO 4 жыл бұрын
Have them guess and compare tuition costs.
@xxdomixx1085 4 жыл бұрын
I am glad that my country pays all my books for me. 🤣
@magdalenamosenlechner3757 Жыл бұрын
I‘m from Austria. At my Uni they were required by law to give you all the information you need to pass the exams for free (online). I did buy some books (just to deepen the knowledge) but the most expensive one was 35€.
@EccentricSH 4 жыл бұрын
He said all together 250 and that's including equipment 😮😮😮 I swear to Bob uncle Sam bout to eat a fire cracker 😂😂😂
@labyrinthmind2951 Жыл бұрын
My favorite is when they try to justify printing a new edition of Math textbooks every few years. Unless you're getting into very high level theoretical math, it's all the same as it has been for the last 300 years.
@leib2762 4 жыл бұрын
This whole video just gave all college students aneurysms
@travislalonde8310 2 жыл бұрын
My economics professor required you to purchase the most current edition of the textbook for his class. Turns out, he wrote the textbook, and releases a new edition every year. When I was there, he was on the 24th edition.
@reknit96 4 жыл бұрын
My school actually pays for the online books for most of our books. It’s really nice considering we don’t use them a lot
@sierrayea4378 4 жыл бұрын
I paid $1200 for nursing textbooks in a single semester 🥴 and couldn’t even rent or buy used
@Tracks777 4 жыл бұрын
lovely stuff
@SheeshMaster64 2 жыл бұрын
luckily i go to an art school and we dont normally use textbooks, but if we do, theyre usually online and one guy buys it and sends the pdf to everyone else
@gracie9444 4 жыл бұрын
That’s my anatomy textbook 😂
@Y_Canada 4 жыл бұрын
Take a shot every time she says "Debbie wins"
@Primimimimimimimi 2 жыл бұрын
woohoo she is so happy
@neggispringfeild 4 жыл бұрын
I was going to college and did take a film photography class developing film is so much fun! (And I was the only student with two photographic art pieces in the show) but my textbooks all together per semester were about the same cost as tuition lol
@phantom6276 11 ай бұрын
When they said $1,222 I got a painful zap through my arms 😬
@264aub 4 жыл бұрын
Oof Viscous Fluid flow is a mechanical engineering textbook 😅 also OMG the cover of the biochem textbook are proteins 🤣
@wijcik 2 жыл бұрын
*Cries in Millennial*
@dianalastovska8386 4 жыл бұрын
Whattttt?? Those prices are unreal. I would copy
@jadedbelle4788 4 жыл бұрын
Textbook publishers make it very hard for libraries to have their books. Some put in copyright clauses saying they aren't for library use or make ebook licenses expensive if you want to have multiple access permissions.
@nxtxlieclaire 4 жыл бұрын
what is the point in charging students a grand for a book :'(
@TheFearTheGames 4 жыл бұрын
just use the uni library lol
@gokulee1652 4 жыл бұрын
Torrent : let me introduce to you.
@HaydenHero 2 жыл бұрын
Textbooks have risen 88% for literally the same exact books with the chapters rearranged and a few extra sentences. We’re all being scammed.
@HackersSun 4 жыл бұрын
I had a bad turn of life events since 2016 since then seeing college prices soar doesn't have much hope for when I can go back to school :c
@AmbrotosArkhon Жыл бұрын
"Due Diligence in Business Transactions" costing $1.2k is some seriously dark humor.
@gardawg 4 жыл бұрын
Good thing this is an era for digital products and way more easier to find information. I don't know how much tree to make a single book, but i get it why the cost rising because of that.
@jzmina 11 ай бұрын
All the students in major at my school would find PDFs of any new textbooks online and email them to each other. Eventually the files were too big so I became a director of our major’s professional engineering student organization and put all the books in my official email’s Google drive. Then I sent the link to every cohort so each year would keep sending them to the next. Never paid for books after my freshman year, and used my scholarship money to buy tech in the bookstore.
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