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!