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Topic	Did you parents pay for the cost of your college education?
Blaqthourne 07/24/17 7:18:19 PM #35:	wwinterj25 posted... Nope. I never went to University. I assume that's what you mean by College when talking to a Brit. In the US, a university consists of multiple disciplines -- so they'll have a School of Business, School of Mathematics, etc. A college focuses on only one discipline. So if the institution doesn't have multiple colleges, it as a whole is a college. So, since not every school is a university, "college" is the blanket term for higher education. ParanoidObsessive posted... Kana posted... but getting them online probably wasn't as easy 20 years ago Was kind of impossible. Best you could really do was go to the local Barnes & Noble or similar bookstore and hope they had a copy of whatever book you needed, but it was rare that they would (since they don't really sell textbooks, per se). Buying used was a better bet, but selling used textbooks back to the store was a sucker's deal. Yeah, basically your only option online would have been amazon, and I don't believe they sold textbooks in the late-'90s. I think online textbook sellers were just starting to appear around that time. I remember when I was attending the community college in my hometown, they must have been involved in some sort of collusion since the local bookstore carried some textbooks and were charging the same as the CC's bookstore. --- Montreal Expos (1969-2004) http://www.backloggery.com/Blaqthourne Now playing: Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) -- started 7/9/2017 <cite>Blaqthourne posted [p:883527631] in Did you pa... [t:75597867]...</cite> <quote><cite>wwinterj25 posted...</cite> <quote>Nope. I never went to University. I assume that's what you mean by College when talking to a Brit.</quote> In the US, a university consists of multiple disciplines -- so they'll have a School of Business, School of Mathematics, etc. A college focuses on only one discipline. So if the institution doesn't have multiple colleges, it as a whole is a college. So, since not every school is a university, "college" is the blanket term for higher education. <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Kana posted...</cite> <quote>but getting them online probably wasn't as easy 20 years ago</quote> Was kind of impossible. Best you could really do was go to the local Barnes & Noble or similar bookstore and hope they had a copy of whatever book you needed, but it was rare that they would (since they don't really sell textbooks, per se). Buying used was a better bet, but selling used textbooks back to the store was a sucker's deal. </quote> Yeah, basically your only option online would have been amazon, and I don't believe they sold textbooks in the late-'90s. I think online textbook sellers were just starting to appear around that time. I remember when I was attending the community college in my hometown, they must have been involved in some sort of collusion since the local bookstore carried some textbooks and were charging the same as the CC's bookstore. --- Montreal Expos (1969-2004) http://www.backloggery.com/Blaqthourne Now playing: Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) -- started 7/9/2017</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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