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Cleaning up after final exams
Final exams are over. Now I face the daunting task of cleaning up my Study Hole. I have to sift through piles of paper and stacks of notes, deciding what to toss or keep on the off chance that I'll need it again. Maybe. Someday. But at least paper is easy to dispose of. It's a yes-or-no, keep-or-toss scenario. And handling the toss pile is easy. Just throw the paper in the recycling bin. There's a certain satisfaction that comes with tossing out a course booklet of notes for a class that you especially despised. A certain joy in watching the paper shredder rip it to bits. But textbooks can complicate things. Textbooks become the albatross of room cleaning. They're hard to deal with because you can't just throw them out. Or get rid of them when you finish a course. They just cost too much. The problem is that lots of mandatory textbooks will never be needed again. And most of these one-time-only books aren't of the 'future leisure reading' variety. So you now have a seven-pound, three-inch-thick textbook collecting dust in the corner of your room, which you had the pleasure of paying $150, plus tax, for. There's no tossing a university textbook. Sure, you may never touch Advanced Organic Chemistry again, but you paid $174 for the thing. Naturally, you just can't let it go. Unless you sell it. As every student learns in first year, most of the textbooks you buy are one-timers. At least, many of mine are. A few students are lucky and have reusable textbooks that are applicable for more than one or two courses. But for those of us who have to dish out $700 or more a semester for one-time textbooks, selling our used books is the only consolation for spending a small fortune on something you'll never read again. Ever.
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