Do you sell back your college textbooks?  

Programming books are definitely something that I can see one using again in the future. I know that I periodically end up looking up stuff in the instruction for Word and Excel. I also have an HTML book I consult on a semi-regular basis.

I know that feeling. Sometimes I look at them again so that I don't forget something when it comes to programming. Any slight mistake and it will not work. That's what I do and that's about it.

Ouch! I have yet to take that class, but I definitely will hang onto the textbook when I get it. I am fascinated by the way that the English language has developed.

I loved the class, the prof, just about everything - even tho it was one of my closest calls on a class.

I know many people get a minor in English around these parts since you have to take 12 hours ANYWAY, but I wasn't even TEMPTED to take another class to get a minor, because I'm so bad at English - and its my native language!

Actually, I did flunk an English class, but I also flunked a History class that semester, I should've dropped out that semester since I totaled a car near the beginning of the year, but I did pass Anthropology, Government and something - forget what it was...

I retook them the spring semester and passed them, also took one of my absolute FAVORITE classes with my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE prof that spring - Dr. Hahn - History of the Middle and Near East - that summer I took History of the Far East from him - and, as he passed out the final he informed us this was the last final he was ever going to grade, because he was retiring - GREAT teacher - GREAT man!

I do not know what it is about the last semester a teacher teaches, but it always feels like a honor to attend a class with a professor during their last semester of teaching. I have experienced this a couple of times already.

he was a good teacher, I had another history professor who probably SHOULD'VE retired before he did - he was one of the most boring teachers I ever had!

What subject did you study?

I have studied bachelor of science in accountancy. Three years after my college graduation, the Philippine government decided to adopt the International Accounting Standards. The adoption totally replaced the old accounting standards we have studied. And what choice do we have but to embrace the change and unlearn what we have studied for more than four years in college. These made our college books almost useless.

Ouch! You gotta love it when the government changes everything on you. Here it seems like it takes forever to graduate because the government keeps adding classes that they want you to have under your belt.

Yeah, most of my textbooks I brought used because I needed to save money. Computer books go out of date fast. It what happens when you study a field that is changing rapidly.

I love google search. It has saved me a ton of money that I would have spent on reasearch otherwise. I collect books myself.

That was one of the reasons that my wife sold back her books this semester. the other reasons was that she was transferring to a different college (university actually), and her pile of books was getting really big. Plus, these subjects were not her primary focus.