Being that my profession will one day hopefully be in the medical field, I am required to take certain classes including; Anatomy, Chemistry, Physics, ect... I have learned that even though some of these classes text books may not actually be "required" for a solid grade, they do help a ton!
Do not get me wrong, google and wikipedia sources can come up in the clutch. But it is often hard to search the very specific knowledge that I am required to learn on google. For example, I had an exam in my Introduction to Physiology class. One of the study tasks was to learn about the mesentery in the human body. I faced a problem because I must have missed the notes on what mesentery is. I had attempted to learn what it was using google. Google was able to define it in a way that ended up providing me different information than I was supposed to learn, resulting me to miss the answer for what mesentery is on the exam. To satisfy your curiosity on what mesentery is, according too my "required" text book, Fundamentals of Human Physiology, 4th ed., by L. Sherwood, mesentery is located in abdominal cavity and is what attaches our intestines to our bodies while absorbing nutrients into our small intestines.
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Fundamentals of Human Physiology, 4th ed., by L. Sherwood
This post drew an interest to me because I strongly agree that out of state tuition costs and textbook costs are ridiculously high. Before I decided to attend Michigan State, I was completely set on attending Indiana University. After a lot of contemplation, I decided the costs for me, an out of state undergrad, were far too high. This, along with outrageous textbook costs, are a big problem today because they leads to students not attending that college, or possibly any college, and avoiding the purchasing of necessary textbooks -- and we all know how that ends.
ReplyDeleteMy first semester I bought all of the textbooks required for my classes and did not use a single one. This post could not be more factual. A lot of instances this can be a huge waste of money especially with all of the expenses of being a college student.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the sentiment that textbooks are overpriced. The frustrating thing is that you never really know if you will need them or not. Last semester I bought a textbook for every class I had and didn't use any of them. This semester I actually ended up needing the textbook for two of my courses since a decent amount of the material on my exams will be from the textbook. I wonder if the textbook prices are as ridiculous as they are because the price to attend college is so high any way that we wont think much of paying a couple hundred more bucks on textbooks we might not even need.
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