stanford, a world class university

as i'll be moving out of palo alto and back to sf, and paying for the movers, i decided to do something out of character for me. instead of keeping my textbooks or giving them away to friends who are taking the class this coming term, in the interest of time, i sold my used books back to the bookstore.

so i tossed my thirty odd books into my big roller bag and rolled them to the bookstore. i piled them up on the cashier's desk in two large stacks and she took the top one off the right-hand stack and began to process the transaction. but then i heard something dreaded, she asked her co-worker how to scan it and the co-worker said we have to enter the isbn's my hand.

so i ran the coffee shop picked up a water and a pastry and had a makeshift breakfast at the cashier's desk while she painfully entered each book into the system. then i made a couple more calls afterwards. then i waited for another 15 minutes for them to finish. world class university my ass.

and my reward, 25 books sold and a big $63.50 in my pocket, almost 15% of the retail price! that's what you call being violated academically.