Comment Re:Montreal Concordia. (Score 2, Interesting) 880
That reminds me that when I got my Bachelor's at McGill, it cost me $638 per YEAR tuition (1976). Now I'm doing a Master's at SUNY-Stony Brook, and last fall I spent approximately the same just for the first term textbooks.
Calculus texts must be the paradigmatic rip-off.
I remember being particularly annoyed with my first-year Calculus text since we only got through half the book in the year, it was a new book so there were no used copies available in Montreal, and the next year, the company issued it as two separate softcover volumes for about a quarter of the price each, so we couldn't even get a good price for ours. Damn them.
Calculus texts must be the paradigmatic rip-off.
I remember being particularly annoyed with my first-year Calculus text since we only got through half the book in the year, it was a new book so there were no used copies available in Montreal, and the next year, the company issued it as two separate softcover volumes for about a quarter of the price each, so we couldn't even get a good price for ours. Damn them.
