$$ College $$

          So College started this week, well last week. I'm not really counting last week cause its the week were you enter a room and the only important things that are really said are "this textbook will cost x amount of dollars and you will need a clicker and to buy access to the website where all the homework is posted" that is an example of one of my classes. Awesome right? wrong... very wrong. not. ok. with me.
         This week every time I got my wallet out to pay for a textbook, or to get a clicker, or notebooks, or an ID, or a bus pass (the list goes on) I thought of the olden days where only the rich and powerful could go to school. It was a great image that even back then school was something you had to pay a lot and work for. I can hardly imagine how much a book cost back then... when all books were written by hand. Hard to imagine with what we have now, laptops, Internet, printing presses. So my question is, after all of the technological advances we've made since then WHY are books still 200+ dollars? I understand that alot of people put work into them and that they are big and heavy and for some reason those two qualify as reasons as to why I pay more. I just think that if you buy a textbook that took maybe 20min to an hour to make on a machine and most of the information was already in the LAST edition of the book why i have to get a new one and why it costs me more than a car payment for textbooks.
            So after this experience of extreme spending I became very grateful for all I have. INCLUDING the opportunity I have to go to College. To earn a degree. To better myself and hopefully my community. I am thankful for my job and the ability it gives me to afford college and the nasty text books that come with it.I am greatful for the internet and the ability to buy book cheaper off their and to rent them and get my money back. I am also grateful to not have been born in the dark ages where girls weren't even allowed to go to college, let alone leave the house. I'm a little to headstrong for that to have lasted for long. However if dragons really did exist back then and I could own one...never mind we won't go there. today.

So in the end College = good and textbooks = so ridiculously expensive it hurts.