How to Avoid Getting Screwed During Textbook Buyback Season. I've worked in a campus bookstore but now work in a school library, so I'd like to offer my perspective here.
When we did buybacks at the bookstore, there were set totals that we had for the number of books we would buy back, and the most we paid was 50% of the new or used price. As we got closer to our target number, the buyback percentage would drop. Once we'd hit that number, we'd buy them at a national rate and send them off to be distributed to other schools.
Once projected demand was up, we'd be unable to buyback books. It's been years since I've worked in a school bookstore, but I can't imagine that the process has changed that much. There is really no point in debating a buyback (or lack of) with bookstore staff. Remember: your campus bookstore is a for-profit enterprise, whose sole purpose is to make a buck under the guise of supporting academic enrichment. Even your instructors sometimes had a hand in this. Note Taking Strategies of Highly Successful Students. A few weeks ago, we published an article on study tips to help you ace your exams.
In that post, I mentioned the possibility of doing a follow-up article on note-taking, and many of you requested that I make that happen. And I’m happy to oblige. Below, I’ve provided a primer on note-taking strategies, many of which I personally used during my academic career. A lot of this is fairly basic stuff–there are no “secrets” to note-taking success. But hopefully a few of these tips will help you start taking notes more effectively. Note-Taking Tools Laptop For most of your classes (especially lecture-heavy social science courses) I recommend taking notes with a laptop. Use a note-taking program. Evernote.
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Hastily written and utterly unedited the night before it’s due, the modern essay has become something of a nightmare for lackadaisical college students. But writing an essay that seems like it was written by someone with more than a double-digit IQ is not nearly as difficult as it seems, I assure you. Even the laziest Guitar Hero II god can whiz through an essay that reads like it was written by F. Scott Motherfucking Fitzgerald. What seems difficult and scary is actually as simple and accessible as you can want. Study Skills Library - Academic Skills Center - Cal Poly. My CalPoly login Student Academic Services Academic Skills Center (ASC) Cal Poly Student Academic Services Academic Skills Center (ASC) SAS : Academic Skills Center : Study Skills Library Academic Skills Center Study Skills Library In this section: Study Skills Library The Academic Skills Center is committed to helping students with their studies; balancing work, school, and life outside of school; and much more.
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