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4 the clackamas print Annemaries Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 College survival ski Feel free to use this guide as your personal coloring book and boredom prevention kit during lec tures!!! Veteran community college student spreads her knowledges with ten helpful survival tips chapters of the book before the first day of class or even contacting the instructor and seeing if it’s possible to get started on the first essay or research paper. The real problems come when you (gasp!) get behind. NEVER get behind on work in a college course, especially when dealing with math. It’s By Annemarie Schulte Associate News Editor 1. Parking is a battlefield: Get here early for parking. Allow at least ten minutes to find a spot. And another ten minutes to trek to class. Add another ten minutes if you plan on picking up a cof fee from Dutch Brothers. 2. Beware of the FBS, Facebook Syndrome: A syndrome I know I share with a good number of students here: opening Facebook on another tab “just to have it open” while I research for other homework related topics. You will ALWAYS come back to Facebook and find yourself browsing around for a good length of time and then realize you were supposed to be writing your essay for English that’s due in roughly eight hours. 3. Procrastinators unite...tomorrow! We are notorious for procrastinating up until the last second and just barely squeaking by. A good way to avoid getting behind is going ahead when you have the chance. This means reading the first few Illustrations by Brian! unlikely you’ll ever catch up. Function over fashion: Thisq 4. for the girls. You’re not in high scho and you can wear what you want without being judged. Sometimes you must sacrifice picking out a great outfit in order to have more study You ’re noil time. Walking around campus school oj and to your car and you cd (five miles away) isn’t fun in those what you four inch stiletto heels. Especially without during the winter ~ judgi months, • making sure you .still look' put together with a bunch of layers isn’t easy. Sweats, UGGS, and pony tails are perfectly acceptable in colled Illustration by Brian Steele Clackamas Print Students feel furious over unfair fees at Clacka Fees take a toll on students from class to the DMV, making wallets smaller and patience even thinner By Abigail Neet News Editor If you If you If you If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street try to sit, I’ll tax your seat get too cold, I’ll tax the heat take a walk, I’ll tax your feet Hearing about our numerous fees and dues only makes me think of “Taxman” by The Beatles. Prices are only going up but they are never high enough. If there is something we do, “the man” will charge us for it. Various math classes are now using MathZone, an online homework program, which seems only designed to take away the teacher’s pain (or might I say, job) of correcting homework. Trisha Freitag’s math teacher is using MathZone, but I wouldn’t say Freitag is very excited about the prospect. “It’s very dumb,” she .said when asked how she feels about having to buy a code online to use MathZone to do her homework. MathZone counts for a total of 100 points, and in the class syllabus, it states that the book will also be used for homework and a graphing calculator will be needed. ‘ Students have to pay for the class book, the graph ing calculator, and now their MathZone code. There are many other fees included in our educa tion process. Bobby Binder finds it frustrating at how often the college and teachers update the books used in their courses, making it difficult to sell books back to the bookstore or to use the same book Illustration by Jessica Foster Clackamas Print • a future course. 1 Binder also thinks we should have ano ing an all book class or a hybrid one and] taking a class, buying the book and thej there is additional work to be done onlin when it costs. I’m sure most of us are aware of thi prices, but did you know, according toj Association of College Stores Student report, the average college student sa required course materials. Binder is also frustrated by the fees] with dropping a class. “I signed up for a class and dropped iq and ended up having to pay $300 in fed I didn’t even take, cause I dropped it oi he said He also explained that the fees got sol the college had been e-mailing him insj ing letters (going green) and he hadn’t b more than a year and was unaware of I they ended up in collection. Binder also told about a friend whoL account open and someone else signed a yoga class, (she is someone who hai interested in yoga and would not sign u| class). She attempted to explain this to] but, Binder says, “they wouldn’t budge”! Binder also said that some teachers are] helpful. His Spanish teacher is printing o| those who did not buy the book. Although he wishes he had known tl bought the book. The state is also trying to raise price most of us thought cost enough as it wai the DMV increased tag prices from the 1 new and unimproved price of $86. Prices are up, not only for drivers. Til drastically upped the price of an ID card! $44.50. It’s not all bad, at least we are not pal oh-so hard to find parking!
