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The BBQ Pit
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You think you took a shot in the shorts, listen to this one:

This semester, some notices went up about a CLE (continuing legal education) course offered one Saturday morning. Well, since lawyers need a certain amount of CLE every year, I reckoned I might as well do it now and get the credit for it. The cost for this four hour course was $90, or $60 if you’d already taken the professor’s “Law Office Management” course and thus already had the books. So, remember that, $30 for books.

So I went to the course, wrote my check, got my books, sat through some very dull lectures. Now, here’s the fun part: those $30 books we bought were used once in that four hour period. And what, you ask, did we use them for? We used one page, in one of the two books, to do one of those lame “If you answered mostly C, your communication style is YELLOW” type quizzes. Like we couldn’t have accomplished that with a single photocopied page.

As if that’s not galling enough, the professor who put the CLE course together also wrote the books, so he knew damn well what he was doing.

The real kicker: the subject of the CLE course was “ethics.”

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I will never forgive the University Book Store in Madison, WI for my final attempted book sale of my college career. I bought a book one week before finals at $100. Their offer, one week later?

Fifty cents.

Needless to say, I kept the damn book.

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Damn the rip-off. I hope you at least get into a major where you’ll want to keep some of your textbooks in the future. I concentrated in English, and made it a point to hold onto every novel and story collection I could. (Books for all my superflous required classes went right back to the bookstore for whatever scrap of cash I could get.) Now that I’m in law school, I hold onto everything except supplements, because I know I’m going to need them again someday for reference.

I have learned a neat trick for earning some cash back: sell the notes you made throughout the semester. I’ve made a killing in selling my course outlines to first year students during the past two semesters. :smiley: