UMUC Is Eliminating All Text Books, You Know, Because College Textbooks Are 95% Worthless and 10000000% Overpriced

WTOP - The University of Maryland University College plans to eliminate textbooks this fall to save students money by using resources online. Kara Van Dam, a vice provost, said Thursday students will be able use a variety of materials like readings and videos online at no cost. Van Dam says the change will save students thousands of dollars over their academic program. She says other universities are taking similar steps, but UMUC is a front runner in making a transition of this magnitude. UMUC caters largely to adults who come to the school with previous college-level learning, whether from prior college course work or job training received in the military. The change begins this fall for undergraduates and by fall of 2016 for graduate students. UMUC has about 84,000 students.

I could talk about what a ripoff and complete joke college textbooks are until the cows come home, go back to the field, and then come home again. Mandatory college textbooks for the most part are 9 billion dollars too expensive. Yes, you can buy them secondhand from Amazon and save money, but the textbooks aren’t always on there. So you have to go to the campus bookstore and shell out $150. It’s the cocksucking professors that revise their own textbook every year so you have to buy a new one that have a special place in hell. And then they change the numbers in the practice questions in the textbook and assign them as homework just to make sure you purchase the newest version and don’t save yourself any money.

So shout out to UMUC, which I wasn’t even sure was a real college, for getting rid of textbooks. UMUC I thought was like University of Phoenix and Devry, but apparently it’s actually real, so that’s cool too. I’m sure more colleges are going to follow suit. I would hope at least. Buying books is the most draining, torturous part of college. Going into the bookstore and buying 50 pounds of textbooks and shelling out every last dollar you made from waitering at the Olive Garden over the Summer. Then you sell them back at the end of the semester for 5% of what you paid for them, even though you didn’t even open 75% of them. College textbooks are the biggest scam going, besides college itself of course.