Do/did you keep any of your college textbooks?

[thirtythree]

Why?

 

[DainBramaged]

not yet

 

[jagec]

Yes, because for engineering you need to reference them occasionally.

I certainly didn't memorize how to solve for an extractor, for example.

 

[FlyLice]

only had to buy a few. mostly borrowed from others.

 

[MetalMat]

I dont know now, I wish I would have sold 80% of the ones I kept back.

 

[DingDingDao]

I keep the textbooks related to my field of work, because I refer to them on occasion.

 

[GrouchyLadybug]

I was a math major, so I kept all of my math books. Never know when you might need to look something up someday. Also kept my two literature books because I love to read and they have great material in them.

 

[cbehnken]

yes, programming books often make great references

 

[SilentZero]

Yes

 

[andylawcc]

i intentionally kept my Calc, business law, and all of the CS books.

all English, Art-related (psychology anthropology) are sold.

 

[thirtythree]

I was thinking about keeping the textbooks for my major (psychology), but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

 

[theknight571]

I kept most of my Computer / Engineering books, and I do still refer to them occasionally.

Plus there was only 1 bookstore on campus so they could rape and pillage at will... so it never paid to turn in the books.

$80 Book new, they'd buy back for $20, then sell used for $65-70

-TK

 

[Ryan]

I keep the ones I like - so far, it's just been my West Civ books, reference books from my composition classes, and the book from my ethics class (It's a collection of some very well written essays - I'm planning on using it for reference for futher stuff, whatever that is)

 

[walla]

wow wrong topic

 

[Drakkon]

i kept a lot of my math books all the way through just cause each class built off the last and then afterwards only because i was going to a job where my mathematical abilities were going to be utilized...

 

[Davegod75]

only the ones they wouldn't buy back

 

[spidey07]

hell no.

I mean where was I to get beer money?

 

[Orsorum]

Yes, I kept all of my higher-level economics and mathematics textbooks (up through mathematical economic theory and linear algebra) and most of my accounting textbooks (particularly intermediate financial and tax).

 

[simms]

Chemical Engineering, and no, sold them all so far. Giong to keep one though, I loved my book on Economic Analysis.!

 

[tami]

i kept some that i found interesting, like my computer books (my major) and some psych books (my minor)

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: thirtythree
I was thinking about keeping the textbooks for my major (psychology), but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

ask your fellow classmate, most likely only a few book is worthy to be kept. i generally sell all the books asap right after the quarter/semsters end before the depreciation kicks in. (damn those new editions)

 

[monk3y]

I kept a few that I couldn't sell...

 

[Svnla]

I keep the good ones such as finance, accounting, computer. I give away books about management, marketing, business.

 

[Zugzwang152]

kept my intro Java, C, and C++ books for reference. I also have two PHP books. The others I have just because I was too lazy to stand in line to resell.

 

[nageov3t]

most of them. I majored in English / Sociology -- most of my English books were paperbacks or anthologies that I'll reread, and my sociology text books are all increadibly interesting. also useful to have for some P&N discussions I also kept the books from cool classes like Intro to Film Studies, Modern American Music, and the biology seminar class I took where we read/discussed the collective works of Stephen Jay Gould.

there were a couple books that I sold or gave away (Spanish 1-4, and many of the books from my intro courses).