Fresh Books And Eager Eyes

At home home at the moment. I needed to give my sis­ter her car back, and I fig­ured I’d go home a lit­tle early to see the fam­ily and have din­ner with them, too.

Before I went home, I stopped by the UCD Book­store to get my text­books for this quar­ter, along with some sup­plies. Which leads to this mini-​rant…

I really don’t under­stand how the Book­store can be miss­ing required text­books at the start of the quar­ter. I was unable to get books for two of my four classes today! I mean, we stu­dents put up with a lot of crap from the Book­store… every­thing in there is over­priced, and we get absolutely raped on the buy-​back and used book pro­grams. But to not have books we need for classes… the Book­store just failed in its main damn func­tion! I mean, pens and note­books, UCD hood­ies and box­ers, Macs and make-​up… these are all nice, but really, all I need are my damn text­books. And it failed to deliver!

But there are some nice things about the Book­store. Like let­ting you charge items straight to your stu­dent account with your reg card. But even this, they have to screw up by requir­ing a sec­ond form of ID. What the hell is the point of the pic­ture on the damn reg card if we need a sec­ond form of ID? Either the pic­ture is proof, and they should accept it as such, or it isn’t, and they should remove it from the reg cards, and save us all a lit­tle money on the damn machine that prints those pic­tures onto the reg cards.

And while I’m on the sub­ject of using the reg card… why don’t all school ser­vices accept it? If the Book­store is able to charge to my stu­dent account, why can’t the CoHo? They are both ASUCD enter­prises. For that mat­ter, why can’t the Silo? And I’m not talk­ing about that stu­pid Munch Money pro­gram! The idea of a debit card with money that expires is ludicrous!

… any­way, I’m really excited to get back to school. Can you tell?

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