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Seems a bit unreasonable to ask students (who likely already have tons of debt) to purchase an additional laptop just to take exams.
by mikeevans 10y ago
Seems a bit unreasonable to ask students (who likely already have tons of debt) to purchase an additional laptop just to take exams.
- katkattac 10y agoYes, it does. On the other hand, though, you can get a cheap Windows laptop for less than some college text books.
- fapjacks 10y agoWell, that's not saying very much, considering the whole thing with college text books. My last gaming rig literally cost less than my wife's textbooks last year.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoSome universities loan students laptops for free for like a week.
- RandomOpinion 10y agoYou might be a bit out of date here. Textbooks are absurdly expensive these days relative to computers; Stewart's "Calculus" is $289[0], for example. That's about the right range for a new low end laptop or a used mid-range laptop. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629/ https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629/
- mikeevans 10y agoPerhaps. But 1) you can rent that book for a fraction of the price (Amazon currently shows it for ~$60) and 2) just because students have to pay for expensive books doesn't mean they have extra money to spend on a second computer.
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