freaking college textbooks

So here's the thing. I just had to buy textbooks for all my college classes. And I get it, I'm taking a full course load, so the bill is going to run a little higher. But really? The price gouging is possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.

Like, you guys, for one of my classes, I paid over a hundred dollars for a book, and it was literally a bunch of papers. These freaking publishers were too cheap to bind these stinking papers together. And okay, I can somewhat get it if you're going to punch holes and put it in a cheap school binder, because there were work pages in it that needed to be handed in and it kept it from getting messy. But they didn't even give me a binder that you can literally get for under five dollars. They just give me a bunch of fricking loose leaf papers.

And sure, in all fairness, it came with an e-book. But in the age of 99 cent e-books, you had to charge me one hundred dollars for that? What?

So thank you, every single publisher and author who knows they have a captive market and will charge us for every dollar we don't have. What a way to sell your book.

And professors wonder why students wait until after the first week to see what books they really need to buy. For real, I had to watch a video for one of my classes that included a professor ranting about a student who asked what books they would actually use. "Yeah, because it's my sole mission in life to empty your wallet on completely non-essential stuff?"

Listen, sit down Mr. Internet Guy. I once knew a girl who bought a textbook she didn't use once. And let's be honest,a lot of the stuff that we pay for we can get for free on the internet. I don't need to pay eighty dollars for a book on how to speak. That's what YouTube is for. Are you trying to tell me that I should learn more from a book about public speaking than from Superwoman (so I can't add that line ish that goes in her username. Y'all know what I'm talking about, so don't even go there). Her name is literally Superwoman, son, at this point she could jump off a building and start flying and I wouldn't even be surprised.

So, to summarize, if someone would like to donate five hundred dollars to my bank account so I can spend all of it on "essential" books next semester, that would be great.

Keep taking care of yourselves, dreamers.