Keeping your textbooks

aibarr
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:31:33 +0000

You will pry my textbooks from my cold, dead fingers.

Don’t give those things up. You’ll forget everything you learned in college, but somewhere down the line, you’re going to be called upon to remember something that you’ve certainly forgotten. Those books will save your rear. You’ve already paid through the nose for them, and those things lose half their value once you drive 'em off the lot, so make that money work for you for the rest of your career.

I’m also looking down the barrel of the October PE exam, which is open-book, so I’m acutely aware of the value of keeping one’s books…