There is a good possibility I may be in college forever. At least it feels like forever since I began my college education right after high school graduation in 2004. Now, it’s 2012 – and I only have an Associate’s Degree to my name. So, why has it taken me so long to finish my Bachelors?  Well, for one – I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I’ve bounced around to so many different degree options over the years. Psychology, Social Work, Criminology, Banking, Business Administration, and the list goes on. All of those changes have definitely kept be back from finishing when I should. But so did working a full time job, getting married, and buying a house too. Not to mention my constant battle against College Algebra.  Thus beings my plight.

Back in Fall, I decided taking 5 classes was a good idea to jump start myself and get through the last 15 credits as quick as possible. It was all well and good until I realized there was no way I was going to get through College Algebra.  Math has never been my strong subject. To the point that I’ve had to repeat many math classes since I started college. Towards the end of that fateful Fall semester, it was painfully obvious that I was going to fall victim to algebra. By the time December rolled around, I had finished off with 3 A’s, 1 B, and an F. You can guess which class was the F. I was so burnt out that I didn’t sign up for classes in the Spring.

Now, here we are and it’s a week before Summer classes begin. I had signed up for the dreaded College Algebra again with full intentions of taking the bull by the horns and getting through this dang class. There is this pesky little rule that says once you are attempting a class a third time, the school will charge you out of state tuition. Translation: Over 1,000 dollars for one class!  Um…no. I’m not paying that much money for a class there is a good change I won’t even pass.  (I’m telling you, I’m really bad at math.)  Can’t I just get a business related degree without taking any more math classes?  Oh, wait…I can?  Management and Organizational Leadership?   Yeah sure, that’ sounds great.  Sign me up.

And here I am days before the Summer semester with a new major, and two classes beginning. The start of two classes also means that I need to get text books – FAST!  The real killer when attention college really is the textbooks. You expect to pay a lot of tuition since it pays for the property, the teachers, the tools, the website and well, everything.  But textbooks?  That just seems like all profit to me.  Publisher’s just keep on putting out new books every year, which makes it so hard to buy books used.  There has to be a better way.

There is.   And I found it, and couldn’t be more happy!

The answer to my textbook problems, and it may be your answer too – is renting textbooks! What better place to rent textbooks than CampusBookRentals.com?  The cool thing about Campus Book Rentals is that they offer free shipping both ways.  There is nothing I hate more than paying for shipping, especially when you are sending something back.  So that is definitely a perk in my book.  Another great feature of the site is the fact that you can choose your due date.   Sooo nice because schools run different semester dates.

And here is a true testament of the price difference.  To buy one of my textbooks through the school, it would have been 63.50.  But to rent it through CampusBookRentals.com,  for a semester it’s less than 25 dollars!  Love that kind of savings especially since I’m not eligible for all that much financial aid since  Andrew and I apparently make too much money.  (Which is a complete joke, by the way)

It’s safe to say with my new major, and new source for textbooks – I will most certainly taking this semester and the next 4 by storm!

Counting down til December 2013 when I can finally say that I am a college graduate!