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@twenty-thirdx
Adding @marcholasmoth 's tags because that is legitimately a fun fact
That context definitely puts a new spin on the phrase, though. Like, that's not expressing a normal kind of happy. That's expressing "I'm not currently experiencing gut churning legitimate fear for my life, which is nice"
I just watched a kid break down in the bookstore because his books for the semester totaled $600 and that’s the american university system in a nutshell
I was on the verge of tears when I got to the cashier so yeah, that’s messed up
Go here and just, don’t waste any more money okay?
While I entirely support following that link, I also suggest going to Abe Books or Book Depository or even eBay to see if there are inexpensive print versions of books you need. I haven’t paid full-price for any of my texts while I’m in school… because that would DOUBLE the cost of school. I use the ISBN of the require books and search the cheap sites for them. Good luck out there, guys!
Paging FenrisLorsrai! Come work your resource magic on this post!
I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED. (but I’ll post on my actual bookstore account)
Quick anddirty meta search for books: Addall. it’ll crawl 40+ book sites at once including ABE, ALibris, Amazon, Half in both domestic AND foreign versions.
Meta search #2! GetTextbooks.com which focuses specifically on textbooks. It omits some foreign sites that AddAll includes, BUT it also includes a whole bunch of rentals as well. Renting is probably the most cost effective method overall.
NOW, HOW TO SEARCH!
First determine a few things:
Make sure you have the ISBN
IF IT IS A BUNDLE: Determine if you need a software key/CD/workbook/lab book or not. Many times you do not. Math classes increasingly NEED the software key, but more on that later
ASK THE PROFESSOR: If this is not the first edition of the book, can you use a previous edition? One edition back is generally half the cost of current, two is generally about 1/8th the cost. Generally you can get away with this if its material that doesn’t change rapidly. Your course on the Civil War, you can probably use two editions back. Your computer programming class on latest greatest language… you probably need newest edition.
FOR LITERATURE CLASSES: determine if you book is from before 1929. If it is, its in public domain, you can almost certain get a free copy online. If they want a SPECIFIC copy for an essay bundled with book, see below.
Now, run your search by ISBN using the two metasearch sites. Open them in separate tabs.
gettextbooks shows you WITH the shipping, Addall does NOT show you the shipping. keep this in mind when you’re comparing. You’ll see a lot of duplication. GetTextbooks will also show you SOME variants.
Now that you have those open, open two more tabs. Run a second search on same two sites using the author and exact title you picked up from search #1. This will show you all the international editions and weird bundles that don’t exactly match the ISBN of the bookstore
WHAT THE HELL IS AN INTERNATIONAL EDITION: its a paperback version of the US version with an angry notice on the cover saying “NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE INDONESIA”. Its the same book, but way cheaper. ignore the angry warning, the US Supreme Court has your back. NO, REALLY. Right of first sale, baby! ignore the angry warning and you basically have same book, it just isn’t printed with ink made from student tears and unobtanium.
Now filter results based on whether you need any Extra materials or not.
IF YOU DO NEED THE EXTRA MATERIALS: this is where it gets tricky. an intact bundle is generally the most expensive option or near top end of price curve. If you NEED the other materials, you may be able to get them cheaper in pieces. and you can buy mismatched pieces!
Say for example you need a math textbook, but need the software key for the math problem program. The professor said you can use older book. Buy a math book that one or more editions back and then buy the software key separately from the SOFTWARE manufacturer. You’ll find the software keys on booksites all by themselves, but they’re generally way more expensive than buying the key direct from software manufacturer. and no shipping then!
NOW A WORD ON LITERATURE: sometimes profs want you to get a specific edition of something to read a specific essay in the book. You have about 50/50 odds that the essay is in the front of the book. IF IT IS, you may be able to read the essay on Amazon by going to that books page and clicking on the “look inside”. They generally preview between 10-30 pages of books and that often means its the essay you needed, not the actually BODY of the book. So you can look up the specific copy of Frankenstein on Amazon, read the essay, then download a free different version from Project Gutenberg.
FOR RECENT NONFICTION, make sure you have an up to date library card for your HOME library and the LOCAL city library where your college is. Many have digital loans available, where you can check out the ebook for free and popular nonfiction is frequently available that way.
IF YOU CAN GET YOUR BOOKLIST BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL: shop for the mundane things locally first. There will be 50 people in CollegeTown looking for that book, you may be the only one in your home town. supply and demand, if you found it in collegetown, it may be 10X price of your local bookstore.
and check you local library as well! You may be able to check out some of those books from your local library and take them to school with you and renew them online one or more times, depending on how in demand they are. There will be NO copies in CollegeTown library because there’s 50 people asking for it. But your HOME town, you may be able to renew it twice since its low demand. Write on your calender when they’re due or need to be renewed. Renew them OR tuck the whole pile into a Priority Mail flat rate box and send them home to your folks. The cost of the priority box to send several library books home is probably way less than what you’d pay for them. (or if its stuff you know you need AFTER a break where you’ll be home, request a hold from school, pick up at home)
ONE LAST WORD BEFORE YOU BUY…
You determined you HAVE to buy a book and you’ve narrowed it down to a few choices of source. Run a search for “coupon + Sitename” what looked like the lowest priced may not if you find a coupon for the 2nd or 3rd lowest priced option. Gettextbook will generate some automatically, but you may be able to find even better ones.
So make yourself some food, get a beverage, put on some tunes and compare prices!
and if you’re reached point of wanting to curl up in a ball and die, you can send us an ask with the ISBN for your book and answers to questions aobe (extra materials, previous edition, etc) and we’ll send you back an note with a link to the cheapest one we can find. I do this for a living, send an ask and I’ll get it done usually within about 12 hours.
WHOOP WHOOP MASSIVE EXCELLENT RESOURCE ADVICE ABOVE!!!!
In my experience avoid purchasing the textbook before you hear the words in person from your prof. I found out that I needed a specific edition AFTER I bought the textbook I thought I needed.
For Arts kids check out [university/college name] + textbook exchange on facebook, a lot of the time theres upper years selling books to you, so you usually get them for at least half price. This is always a cash deal where you meet the student on campus.
For science / engineering kids, talk to some upper years about what textbooks you’re actually going to need. I have a friend in second year applied math engineering who didn’t purchase any textbooks this semester because all the content was on KahnAcademy
The on-campus libraries almost ALWAYS have your textbooks. If you’re really strapped for cash, borrow them. For me they’re on a 3 hr loan, but sometimes if you try to check it out right before they close you can take it out overnight!
For future reference
may 2018 bring you
• clear skin
• pure love
• good grades
• recovery
• genuine happiness
• a better year than 2017
Get Into LOONΔ: The Guide
Here are the LOONΔ music videos in chronological order (their official songs are linked to their names and the ones below their names are other songs released during their era/related to them):
Heejin:
Color - Pink
Animal - Rabbit
Location - Paris
- Vivid (Acoustic Version)
Hyunjin:
Color - Yellow
Animal - Cat
Location - Tokyo
- I’ll Be There ( + Heejin)
Haseul:
Color - Green
Animal - Bird
Location - Iceland
- The Carol (+ Heejin, Hyunjin, filmed in London)
Yeojin:
Color - Orange
Animal - Frog
Location - Taipei
- My Melody (+ Haseul)
- Bonus: My Sunday (Heejin and Hyunjin)
Loona 1/3:
Some Background - BBC announced that there would be a unit with the new member Vivi and the unit was introduced before Vivi’s solo song was released.
- Love&Live
- You and Me Together
- Sonatine
- Rain 51db
Vivi:
Color - Pastel Rose
Animal - Deer
Location - Hong Kong
(Also she’s an android as seen in the Love&Live video)
- Everyday I Need You (+Jinsoul)
The second wave of girls are more focused on color than location which is why there are no locations listed here.
Kim Lip:
Color - Red
Animal - Owl
- Eclipse Choreography Ver.
Jinsoul:
Color - Blue
Animal - Fish
- Singing In the Rain (+Heejin)
Choerry:
Color - Purple
Animal - Fruit Bat
Fruit - Cherry
- Love Cherry Motion Choreography Ver.
Odd Eye Circle:
- Unit Concept Reveal
- Girl Front
- Girl Front Choreography Ver.
- Loonatic Lyric Video
- Sweet Crazy Love
For this unit, instead of being focused on location or color, each girls’ motif is a fruit, tying into a storyline involving the Garden of Eden.
Yves:
Color - Burgundy
Animal - Swan
Fruit - Apple
- The Carol 2.0 (+Vivi, Choerry)
Chuu:
Color - Peach
Animal - Penguin
Fruit - Strawberry
Gowon:
Color - Turquoise/Seafoam Green
Animal - Butterfly
Fruit - Pineapple
General Group Videos
LOONΔ TV Playlist
LOONΔ TV Prequel Playlist
Playlists of all MVs (in chronological order)
I will keep adding on to this as we get more Loona releases and new members :)
i know you chose me and i should be over the moon and i am i’m in the stars but the problem is that i forgot in space you can’t breathe i forgot that with the sun lighting me up you’ll see all my flaws i forgot that if you get close to me you’ll realize how little i’ve got that i’m just a mess and bad with love and worse with other people that i’m alive only by the grace of god and barely living anyway and that you are too good for me and i know it i know it like yeah i should be living in the moment but what happens when you find out that you gave me your heart but i don’t know how to hold it
Rule number 1: Never fall in love. Being in love is a dangerous thing. You look at him in the wavering light of the room and watch amazed how the bright yellow flames reflect on your dark shape like a halo. It’s a sin, really.
Rule number 8: Don’t let them see behind the mask. He looks at you with something so utterly blank and insane that you don’t know how to react. Your last lover, at least, had had the good sense to be disgusted. Your last lover, at least, had been smart enough to see you for what you really are: a broken shell of a human being. Hungry, desperate, eager to break open everyone around you to taste blood. But his wide-eyed fear and adoration does something to you that makes it harder to breath.
Rule number 24: Never let your emotions betray you. Would you kill to save a life? The question is innocent enough but you hear the faint trace of a warning in the words. He’s the hollow chest and the bloody knuckles that stay behind. Broken bones and spiteful confession from cherry lips on Sunday duty. He knows exactly how to infect you inch by inch, sense by sense. You close your eyes and listen to his heartbeat - strong and honest and eager. But you don’t answer.
Rule number 29: Don’t let anyone save you. For the terrible split of a moment you are certain he is about to kiss you. You’re already anticipating the hard press of lips against your own and you’re ready to release all of your anguish and fear into the boy. Then he pulls away. The warmth of his fingers still lingers on your skin but he is gone, his heart half across the room. It hurts but it’s better this way.
Rule number 31: Show no weaknesses. The boy hates your eyes. Hate, or some similar emotional. Something like love. You know because you listen to the fragile stagger of his breath each time it shifts and hitches as soon as he looks at you. Too raw, too expressive. You feel naked in front of him.
Rule number 1: Never fall in love. Being in love is a dangerous thing. It makes you vulnerable and captivated and angry while you wear his name like a tattoo on your heart. Like a burn in your veins. A mouthful of apologies carefully tucked behind the bleak row of hungry teeth. He will become your prayers and your sins and when people tell stories about how Lucifer fell because he loved God the most, you already prepare for the fall. Because love will strip you to your bones. Love destroys you. The boy half-lies, half-sits sleeping in your uncomfortable armchair, head slumped down, drooling all over the expensive leather of your jacket that is sprawled above him. He reeks of a long night with beer and fear clinging to his pores and the stinging sweat of adrenaline that slowly rushes off. You can taste him on your tongue and you wish, greedily, to run your fingers over the inside of his wrists and feel his pulse like braille on your fingertips. You keep your distance and watch him from the other side of the room. The orange light of the flames inside your head paint his shapes like something holy and divine. It’s enough for now, isn’t it?
- the rules of love for assassins | r.m - published in Tales
One thing I’ve learned in life, if you act really self-assured and confident you can pretty much get away with anything.
For example, I’ve watched someone walk on to a plane with no passport. Just walked right on.
Once walked out of a dude’s house with a pair of his pants slung over my shoulder. Did all the usual eye-contact, saying-goodbye movements and noises, just… while stealing his pants. He did not notice.
I told my English teacher that she graded my final paper(I did not turn one in) and that she told me it was well written. She scrambled 3 days trying to find the nonexistent paper, then apologized to me for losing it and gave me a 96%. Confidence is key
my dad’s mate just walked out of a shop with a canoe and didn’t get questioned
Humans are like bees: if they sense you’re an intruder all hell will break loose, but if you get inside the hive they just assume you belong there. Be confident.
if you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.
dear teens out there struggling rn: I failed classes every year in HS and lost my summers to summer school and I barely graduated and my teachers thought I was worthless and a lost cause and my guidance counselor told my mom I wasn’t “smart enough” to go to college but then I saw a counselor and found out I just had unchecked mental illness and I took care of myself for a few years and eventually went to college and I graduated with one degree at the top of my class and now I’m blazin’ another badass success trail toward my second degree so even if you don’t go to college and your path lies elsewhere just never ever let someone convince you you’re worthless or not X enough bc
ppl really do love to believe the worst and only you know about the light burning in your heart and one day everyone else will see it even if now nobody even glances at you. just keep moving.
take care of yourself as best as you can and one day your life will start to come together. I promise.
like I really believed these adults for so long. and some of my peers. I really thought I was just somehow lesser than everyone else around me. I was suicidal. My dad had just died. I felt ugly, stupid, talentless, like I had nothing to offer. Now I realize I was lied to again and again and again. The people telling you you’re nothing aren’t just missing the truth, they’re lying to you! Don’t believe them. In my darkest time, I held on for my family. Sometimes for my dog. Sometimes out of spite. Sometimes for the future I still somehow dreamed I could have. Whatever it takes. Whatever you can think of to hold on for, grab it with both hands. And if you lose it, find something else and hold on again. It’s worth it. You’re really already shining. Just other people don’t want to see that yet. But you’re worth everything.
What does my cat think when I kiss his little head? Does he know it’s affection or does he think I’m trying to eat him
These questions are totes why I follow you, top quality content right here
It’s important!
Well it depends. Do you try to put ketchup on him before kissing his head, that would change things :P
Yes. I put ketchup on my cat before I kiss his head.
Fun bit of info!
Kitties rub their heads against their chosen people as a method of scent marking, but not of ownership. Instead, they’re getting their scent on you because they know that you’re a family, but you smell “Funny” compared to them. They’re trying to make you smell like their family.
If your cat allows you to kiss their little head, it’s because they’re accepting -your- scent, and being part of your family.
Ketchup included.
This is a good note, thank you
This why they boop you. :)
Fact:
In animals that have communal grooming as part of their behavior, sticking your face in their face for kisses/boops doesn’t bother them at all because they know you’re not going to eat them.
But, with frogs (and other animals you shouldn’t be putting your mouth on) that do not have communal grooming there’s a high chance their first reaction will be “plz don’t eat me” before realizing you do not mean them any harm.
Also; if you accidentally step on a cat or a dog, or accidentally pinch/hurt a smaller pet and after they squeak or yelp you start petting them and trying to reassure the animal that you weren’t trying to hurt them they’ll understand that. Puppies and kittens get a little too rough with their play, but when a litter-mate ends up squeaking because they got hurt the puppy or kitten will stop playing so roughly and switch to kisses/licks as a way to apologize before they go back to playing.
When humans act the same way, and do not hurt them again it registers as “oh that wasn’t on purpose” and the animal quickly forgives you.
It’s the animal equivalent of “Don’t tell Mom!”
This is also good to know, thank you!
THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY
THANK YOU
I’M SO GLAD MY LITTLE RATTOS AND PUPPERS KNOW I DON’T TRY TO HURT THEM AND KNOW THAT I APOLOGISE WHEN I DO
:o!
said I’m just tryna swim in something wetter than the ocean - reminder // the weeknd
Be careful with your honey, my friends! <3
Brain teasers for egalitarians/equalists.
Say I’m 32 years old and you’re 22 years old.
In how many years will we be the same age?
…
Silly question, right? If you define aging as a process that stops at death, the only way we’ll ever be the same age is if I die first. If you don’t, then we’ll never be the same age. Every time you age a year, I also age a year. Since our ages increase at the same rate, you will never catch up to my head start. We have achieved a total equality of aging, but that does not change the permanent inequality of our age.
Okay, say I have a million dollars and you’re completely broke. If we both get a dollar a day, how long will it take you to catch up with me?
Now, this one’s even sillier, because if you have no other resources, your dollar a day is going to be eaten up by basic living expenses that it doesn’t quite meet, and I have an excess of money that can be spent on money-making opportunities that pay off far better than an additional $365 a year. I could literally burn the dollar I’m getting as part of our Totally Equal Income and still make more money in a year than you do just by sticking my money in the bank.
But still: both of us getting a dollar a day is totally equal, right? It means we’re being treated exactly the same.
And now, final problem:
If we have a world that contains structural inequalities, systemic imbalances, disproportionate danger faced by some, and unequal access to resources and opportunities, is “treating everyone the same” really going to result in equality?
Show your work.
I may have reblogged this already but I don’t care it’s important.
i may have reblogged this already but i don’t care it’s important
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
305 am and wondering if i still have a heart. i can’t feel anything
