So I decide to go get my textbooks for this upcoming semester. I’m essentially done with school except that I have to take two more semesters of Spanish. I hate spanish. I don’t hate the language, just being forced to learn it at an institution I’m paying to attend. Teach spanish in grade school? I’m totally fine with that. Forcing me to learn spanish when I’m 27 and finished with my major? That just grates on me.

Anyhow, I go to get my books and, predictably, the Spanish book I need is $70. That’s fine. I can handle that. I’ve spent more for books in the past. Then I find out that I need an “online code” in order to do internet classwork. I’m like “an online code? That’s all I need?” and the girl is like “yep!”. So I said “Great! I’ll take one”. She hands me what amounts to a thin piece of cardboard and I head up the the register.

The dude scans that thin piece of cardboard. $60. For an “online code”. It’s literally just a series of numbers that I type into a website. That’s it. And it cost me 60 f*cking dollars. I probably wouldn’t be so bitter about this if I wasn’t done with my major and minor. In fact, I actually have a double minor finished. This is just piss time for me and I know it is going to be hard as hell because I just cannot seem to grasp the Spanish language. Why does college have to force this language requirement bullshit on me? Not only am I paying public education tax dollars that should have this crap instituted in grade school when I don’t know any better not to learn it, but now they force you to spend ridiculous amounts of money at an optional educational institution

No me gusta, Motherf*ckers!

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