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Sitting in the airport, you’re in the midst of calling your blockmate when you get a text informing you that your flight has been delayed. Bored, you find yourself perusing Facebook for pics of that cute guy in section when you remember—shit! You forgot to submit your paper to your TF! No problem, before long it’s zooming through cyberspace onto her desktop as an email attachment. You breathe a sigh of relief. Life used to be tough, you muse while gazing affectionately at your new best friend and faithful tagalong...
...Principles of Economics” was the average selling price of $89 at Half.com, where the book has gone for as much as $195 (net profit $40.05). Just post a listing for your book, and then mail it to your buyer. The final analysis? If you have thick text books, use Half.com. If you’re an English major, hold on to “Moby Dick” - it’ll make an impressive door stop after graduation. If you’re smart, maybe you should dip into your roommate’s stash after...
...long flight delays with no announcements, waiters who evaded eye contact for 15 minutes or more, and repairmen who failed to turn up at my house for appointments but then arrived unannounced a few days later. At the same time the best airlines in India will send me a text message if my flight is delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit to see how his patient is doing, and the staff in a couple of hotels have been so skilful and gracious that I was barely aware of all they were doing to make...
...course reading lists to the Coop so that its aisles are full of new books come shopping week. Many undergraduates feel as if they’re stuck buying books there, so as not to fall behind in a class or get stuck with the wrong edition of the text. The problem, however, is that books sold at the Coop tend to be considerably more expensive than the same books sold by online booksellers like Amazon.com or even other book stores. This issue came to a head last week, when a troop of Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives marched into...
PDAs are also expensive. Undergraduate Daniel A. Ford ’08, who recently purchased a Cingular Blackjack, laments his new phone’s cost: “My cell phone bill is $30 for the Internet, $10 for text messages, and $60 for a medium-minutes package. That’s 100 bucks a month, or $1,200 a year, which is really a lot when you think about it. That’s 30 fifths of Maker’s Mark, and honestly I would rather have the latter...