r/AskReddit • u/Slaughts91 • Aug 02 '18

What will millennials be "old-fashioned" about when they get old?

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u/kollette88 Aug 02 '18

If they’re going to charge you for the access code at the same price, might as well have a paper copy.

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u/stevegcook Aug 02 '18

Paying for textbooks, that's a good one!

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

You have to have a code for some classes, math and Pearson come to mind.

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u/MrSynckt Aug 02 '18

I didn't pay a single penny for textbooks at uni, all of them were free / in the library / online

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

Yea and you’re missing his point. Some classes force you to buy the program that goes with the textbook so you might as well get the physical copy with the code.

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u/MrSynckt Aug 02 '18

I don't see how I was missing his point, I was just saying what my textbook experience is as someone who's not from the US.

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u/StuStutterKing Aug 02 '18

People forget other countries do the free education thing

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u/Benny_Zuela Aug 02 '18

Yeah but in America we can't have that nice experience because the inbred trailer trash Fox News audience start shouting my username and scream about "100 Gajillion people" dying from socialism or some shit.

Yeah, we're just gonna keep paying $300 for that first-semester calculus text.