TenuredVulture wrote:Lil' Vulture applied for a Forever 21 charge card. Though turned down, she still got a discount for applying.

Got the discount AND avoided getting fucked over by a CC company...smart kid!

Yeah but took a credit hit

My 2.5 year old seems to hate her little sister (5 mos). Mommy thinks we need more "I'm a big sister" books...

I think, time for a counselor. Any thoughts?

TenuredVulture wrote:#$!&@ just got real--e-mail about tuition payments.

Made my first payment. Yikes.

TV understands the new book scam. Holy shit! Most courses have an online component that is between 60 and 100+ dollars making used and rental books that might have working codes sketchy leading you to “the bundle” of a book guaranteed to be the right edition with a code. The core class and calculus books with online codes will be about $600. Then there are the rest. He can really only risk renting one until we crack the code a little better.

Sux.

PhillieMooDo wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Lil' Vulture applied for a Forever 21 charge card. Though turned down, she still got a discount for applying.

Got the discount AND avoided getting #$!&@ over by a CC company...smart kid!

You must be 21 to get a credit card in your own name, unless you have a cosigner or can show proof of steady income.

I looked with the idea of getting my college bound the slowly start to build a credit history.

you can get a credit card once you are 18

https://www.thebalance.com/how-old-do-y ... ard-960208

thephan wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:#$!&@ just got real--e-mail about tuition payments.

Made my first payment. Yikes.

TV understands the new book scam. Holy shit! Most courses have an online component that is between 60 and 100+ dollars making used and rental books that might have working codes sketchy leading you to “the bundle” of a book guaranteed to be the right edition with a code. The core class and calculus books with online codes will be about $600. Then there are the rest. He can really only risk renting one until we crack the code a little better.

Sux.

Our book bill isnt too bad. Most expensive course will be German, at abour $100. I can tell you in most cases, instructors can make courses mofe affordable if they want to. And really, a calculus course could be cheap.

thephan wrote:

PhillieMooDo wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Lil' Vulture applied for a Forever 21 charge card. Though turned down, she still got a discount for applying.

Got the discount AND avoided getting #$!&@ over by a CC company...smart kid!

You must be 21 to get a credit card in your own name, unless you have a cosigner or can show proof of steady income.

I looked with the idea of getting my college bound the slowly start to build a credit history.

My girlfriends daughter was 19 when she got a deserve edu credit card

PhillieMooDo wrote:My 2.5 year old seems to hate her little sister (5 mos). Mommy thinks we need more "I'm a big sister" books...

I think, time for a counselor. Any thoughts?

Give it some time. My son (3.5 now) acted out a bit when his brother was born and he was 6 months older than your daughter. 2.5 was a nightmare age for us andcthat was without a kid.

Now my son is great. Happy and loves his bro.

any teacher who isn't sending out scanned copies of the text books is a monster.

Also any school library that doesn't jsut buy licenses for all the books needed sucks too. It's the college bookstores that are mostly to blame

BatFlipsFTW wrote:

Phred wrote:Spent some time yesterday at the local police department filing a report because my son was mentioned in an Instagram DR that consisted of a lot of white supremacy rhetoric and specifically mentioned the author's desire to throw my son in an oven, Auschwitz style.

So that was fun.

This is the root of the problems facing society.

I don't care what you say, filing a police report is the right thing to do!

I scan the books I use in my classes and then share them with a few people knowing they will end up in every student's possession. I know the author of one of the books and she doesn't care. I wouldn't do that with regular books, but textbooks are ridiculous. No way they should charge what they do.

Phred wrote:

BatFlipsFTW wrote:

Phred wrote:Spent some time yesterday at the local police department filing a report because my son was mentioned in an Instagram DR that consisted of a lot of white supremacy rhetoric and specifically mentioned the author's desire to throw my son in an oven, Auschwitz style.

So that was fun.

This is the root of the problems facing society.

I don't care what you say, filing a police report is the right thing to do!

Hire some local thugs to put a scare in the perps. What could possibly go wrong?

Monkeyboy wrote:

Phred wrote:

BatFlipsFTW wrote:

Phred wrote:Spent some time yesterday at the local police department filing a report because my son was mentioned in an Instagram DR that consisted of a lot of white supremacy rhetoric and specifically mentioned the author's desire to throw my son in an oven, Auschwitz style.

So that was fun.

This is the root of the problems facing society.

I don't care what you say, filing a police report is the right thing to do!

Hire some local thugs to put a scare in the perps. What could possibly go wrong?

We don't know who the perps are. The IG account that sent the DMs had already been deleted by the time we became aware of all of this.

Phred wrote:

BatFlipsFTW wrote:

Phred wrote:Spent some time yesterday at the local police department filing a report because my son was mentioned in an Instagram DR that consisted of a lot of white supremacy rhetoric and specifically mentioned the author's desire to throw my son in an oven, Auschwitz style.

So that was fun.

This is the root of the problems facing society.

I don't care what you say, filing a police report is the right thing to do!

Show me where I say filing a police report is the wrong thing to do?

BatFlips really having a couple of days here.

Slowhand wrote:BatFlips really having a couple of days here.

How so? Because I said the ideology that suggest throwing someone in the oven is at the root of the problems facing society?

jfc