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[labellementeuse]

Went and got my student ID today - they've actually wised up and put a proper expiry date on the thing this year, hooray! Also picked up a couple of text books - only two of the three I need this term, because I just couldn't handle repurchasing Calculus: Early Transcendentals for $140 again. (I needed it first year, and lost it just before finals.) Unfortunately it looks like it's a new edition this year, so buying it second hand is impractical. If I can borrow an early edition off a mate I might, but I probably should own the damn thing.

Not that the ones I bought were much less expensive, but at least I wasn't forking out for them a second time. (Linear Algebra, D Poole, and Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, Mappes & Zembaty)

The Poole looks pretty dull, but I actually already started reading Social Ethics, I think I'm going to like this course. OTOH I find it a little off-putting that the text is so American; the chapter on the death penalty begins with an extensive discussion on the constitutionality of capital punishment, and refers to death penalty adherents as "retentionists" and those who oppose it as "abolitionists" - terms obviously idiotic for any country, like New Zealand, which does not currently give the death penalty. :-/ Oh well, it's still quite interesting.

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[angry-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Now I can finally commiserate with on the Uni Textbook Woes. Bought mine today. Final total? $460. Even writing that out makes me die a little inside.
But reading them is fun. Even my Art History one, which weighs about 4-6kg. It's HUGE. Whereas my Anthropology is this tiny, anorexic thing which is supposed to last me two papers.Hah.

Social Ethics sounds interesting.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*wince* Oh, you have my sympathies, doll. It looks like I'm only going to need one more this semester - $140 - but I dunno about next semester, trying not to think about it. :P At least some of them I'll be able to reuse, though, so that's OK.

I'm looking forward to the paper, I've never done any ethics before.