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[The Juan Percenter]

That right there is a mensch.

It also helped to be extremely cheap.

[ReturnoftheMack]

My Dad sent 4 kids through college at the same time. From 1994-2002 he paid out the rear. I got a decent chunks of loans too.

My dad did the same thing with 3 of us. He also got me through grad school and my bro through medical school.

[muddyglass]

Libraries are the college student's (and especially the grad student's) best friend. Get the books from course reserves, photocopy it, and return it. That $30 book just cost $6.

or just use the department's photocopier because you have access to it at night when no one's looking.

also check out torrents for hundreds of textbooks in the same field packaged together. there are some very nice digital copies of textbooks that were not photocopied, but rather typed in beautiful typesetting (latex). all you need to do is print out the book on your school's laser printers (a chapter or two at a time to avoid nasty looks) and then have the book bound at staples. $5 or less for a bound printed copy of that out of print $300 textbook!

[eyp]

or just use the department's photocopier because you have access to it at night when no one's looking.

also check out torrents for hundreds of textbooks in the same field packaged together. there are some very nice digital copies of textbooks that were not photocopied, but rather typed in beautiful typesetting (latex). all you need to do is print out the book on your school's laser printers (a chapter or two at a time to avoid nasty looks) and then have the book bound at staples. $5 or less for a bound printed copy of that out of print $300 textbook!

You could probably sell them for a decent price too.

[muddyglass]

You could probably sell them for a decent price too.

and i could probably get into big trouble with the department and with the school as a whole too.

[eyp]

and i could probably get into big trouble with the department and with the school as a whole too.

Really whats the difference b/t stealing and selling?

[Eli Katz]

Thankfully, I no longer take courses. But profs in my department generally assign articles that can be found in the jstor collection. So the course reading material is free and readable online.

[eyp]

Thankfully, I no longer take courses. But profs in my department generally assign articles that can be found in the jstor collection. So the course reading material is free and readable online.

I love JSTOR for research.

[CountD]

sponged off my parents, then got a job where they paid most of my schooling.

I'm never going back to ramen, not with this skill set, brutha.

[toolverine]

Damn, everyone has had some sort of slick set up or a safety net of some sort. JSTOR has been really great since it's recent revamp, but I still use PsychINFO more often.