LETTER: Buying back the books

Editor,

After going back to the good-old university bookstore, I found out just how much money they were going to pay me for six books that had cost me $280.

I still needed the rest of my 12 books, but I came up with my top 10 good ideas of what I could spend this lump of money on. But my sizable wad can only afford me one of the following, so those of you who get ideas from this list, don’t get too excited. The ideas are:

10. A date for one to the movies (no popcorn or other snacks)

9. Two dozen doughnuts at Lee’s (only after 11 with a student ID)

8. Enough scantrons to last me the next three semesters

7. Two pencils to fill out scantrons which have been paid for some other way

6. One and one-half binders to put final portfolios in (don’t ask me why you would use a half of a binder, but I could afford it)

5. Two cans of hot cocoa (only the ones on sale)

4. Two movie rentals

3. Two Happy Meals

2. One Big Blue Special at A&W

1. Nothing. Because as with all other money, it goes down the drain before you know it anyway.

In reality though, the Bookstore is a good place to go, and everybody has to earn a living somehow. I just wish that it wasn’t off of us poor students.

Jaron Nelson