College is getting ridiculous!

I just priced books for once of my classes in the fall. Sixteen! Sixteen different books for one single class that will end up costing me around two hundred dinero, and that’s buying them used from Amazon.com. I will have at least sixteen more books to add to my bookcase by the time the fall quarter is over. Sixteen! And that class isn’t even senior level! Let’s add this up

Tuition: $1000
Books $ 200+
Parking permit: $36
Gas: Ugh
Getting a high school level education from Cal State East Bay: Priceless

Sixteen books that say the same thing: Journalists are rotten, soulless, scums of the earth that have no decency and will invade private moments for the sake of a fifteen-second story. They are what’s wrong with the world and they have corrupted the way we think, act and feel. If you want to be journalists of any sort, be prepared for masses and masses of people to hate you based on principal alone.

See the list below. That is basically what these books are about (that and the different way we communicate):

The Beauty Myth
Bias
Boxing Plato’s Shadow
How to win friends and influence people
The Mouse that Roared
News About the News
Personal Touch
Regarding the Pain of Others
Rhetorical Career of Cesar Chavez
Rich Media
Technopoly
You just don’t understand
Understanding sexual Harassment
Persuaders (DVD by Frontline)

I am sure there will be more to these books, yet why sixteen? How about choose four? Or even five? College Professors think all we have is schoolwork to keep us busy, because, most of the time, that is all they have to keep themselves occupied.

I would like to think of this as an investment in my future, but really, these sixteen books needed for my class are just an excessive waste of my hard-earned money. Let's take five.....