Ah, yes...
Since my computer will not allow me to either read or post comments on anyone's blog, I will now respond to Katie's book selling story with a story of my own. A favorite story.
I took some music history class at Union. It was badly taught. I realized this pretty quickly into the class. We watched a lot of videos and didn't learn much from the lectures. I had already purchsased the book for said class, and it was too late to return it for the full refund. I didn't take the book to class. I got an A- in the class. I could have gotten a 100% in the class if I had taken it out of the shrink wrap. Especially because he gave open-book quizzes and tests. But I decided that it was worth it, just to make the point, and because I'm ridiculously stubborn, to not unwrap my book.
So on book sell back day I sold back my book still in the shrink wrap. I didn't get any extra money back or anything, but I like to think of it as a moral victory.
The end.
1 comment:
I remember that class! Me and you and Ben all took it together. I remember a time when we were all so bored that you wrote a poem about how you would rather go outside, dig a hole in the snow and stick your head in it rather than listen to the teacher. You ended it with: I hate snow. It was so funny and I just spent 10 minutes trying to find it because I really believe I wrote it down somewhere, I liked it so much. It was the context, I guess.
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