# I should have brought Vaseline. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317 "2001-09-01T18:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317/21 "2001-09-05T15:29:02Z")
Er, that would be my last _year_ of college. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317/22 "2001-09-05T15:40:22Z")
No, what sucks is selling back your book at the end of a semester, and then finding you need that book for another class, and having to buy it NEW again. DOH! Medea’s Child, I strongly suggest you hold onto your engineering texts despite the urge to sell them used to help make up some of the exorbitant price. It really bites to buy one twice. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317/23 "2001-09-05T15:50:27Z")
Medea’s Child said: > [@](#): > > Let’s look at this. As an Engineering student I pay more tuition, do more work, and pay more for books. And people wonder why we growl at English lit majors. Not only can they spell, but they get to read sci-fi as a _class_ for _credit_ for a _degree_. While most of my crap is in Greek and costs many times more. On the same budget. Even if I had time to party I wouldn’t have the money. /whine. Get this - when I started, we had a computer use fee that ran $100 a semester. This was for engineers only. Then the school started putting in computer labs for student use for reports and such. Close to when I graduated the university instituted a new computer fee. It was $5 a credit hour for other majors, but a full $20 a credit hour for engineering majors. Because we use computers so much more. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317/24 "2001-09-06T15:06:10Z")
Um, speaking as a grad student in the English department, I can say it really isn’t a picnic either. I recently had a lit course that required me to buy a grocery bag full of paperbacks–each one at about twice what they were worth. I don’t have my records handy, but all told, I wound up blowing way over $200 for that class. On the other hand, at least your Engineering degree is kinda useful in and of itself–must be nice having motivation to learn… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-should-have-brought-vaseline/79317.md?page=1)