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Beat the Bookstore This Semester

Awhile back I wrote a two-part piece on how to get the most money for your textbooks when selling them and get the best price for buying them, since finals are rolling around for everyone right now, I thought I’d put a little reminder up for everyone.

How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 1 (Buying)
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My Bio

I am working on writing up a bio for a new project I am getting ready to join (more info to come soon). David is weirded out writing in the third person… Friends, what do you think I am missing here?
David is a native Texan, most recently of Austin, where he attends the University of [...]

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Why Are Students Not On Twitter?

Since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve noticed that one important group of people is very underrepresented in the community - students.
Why are they not on Twitter? To me, it seems that Twitter would be the perfect medium for students to communicate with one another - SMS brought to the next level. Is it too early [...]

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How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 2

I don’t like buying textbooks from the bookstore, no one does. They’re expensive, oftentimes you are supporting what is effectively, a local monopoly, you have to fight crowds at the beginning of the semester, and so on. They force us to buy books at inflated prices and then offering us pennies on the dollar to [...]

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Collaborate on Facebook = Fail?

Just came across this article via slashdot, apparently a student at Ryerson University in Canada is facing academic charges for being the admin of a chemistry study group on facebook.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group ? called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular [...]

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