{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-05T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.students.ubc.ca\/miranda\/2007\/09\/05\/fast-start-fast-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T02:36:26","slug":"fast-start-fast-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/2007\/09\/05\/fast-start-fast-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Start? Fast mistake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I am going to get this off of my chest for one final time, and you all can consider yourselves lucky that you weren’t one of the first to hear this.<\/p>\n

So I sign-up for Faststart….. Faststart is supposed to be this way of getting all your books, without waiting in the line-up; they can even be delivered to your door. BUT don’t let these promises fool you! I’m guessing that this is a new system so they may eventually work out the kinks, and kinks there were. For me anyways. So consider yourselves warned!<\/p>\n

They reel you in with promises of ease and delight. I ordered my books, added that I would prefer Used books and inputted my address as I do not live on campus. I am then notifies that my books will be arriving on one of 3 days…. between the hours of 8AM and 8PM….. and that they will be unable to notify me on what day they are coming! This would be managable if I had a roommate at the time, or even friends(!) but I am then forced to put a sign on my door whenever i am gone, that my landlord can take my books (so far the only person in my complex that i have exchanged words with). So…. i go away Friday evening, no books have arrived.<\/p>\n

Now, I have to go to the bookstore anyway (located very accessibly on University Blvd.) and not only do i have to go there…. I have to stand in line! You see, i know myself well enough to know my patience level… and when regarding line-ups… it is not high! So, instead of being all prepared and having my books ahead of time as the mature, responsible person I am would prefer, I am now getting my books the day before classes… instead of enjoying the Carneval.<\/p>\n

Oh wait… it gets better! Once I finally get my box o’books I see what I feared the most.<\/p>\n

6\/14<\/p>\n

Thats right folks, a big 6\/14 is written on the side of the box. This means that out of 14 books that I needed to start this year, I have 6 AND they have given me the one I specifically asked that they NOT give me as I had already purchased it. Great… 9 more books to go and the line-ups have got to be as long as the Great Wall.<\/p>\n

So… the long on the short of it is that I have had NO benefit from Faststart what-so-ever. I could have gone a couple of weeks before school, when i was bored, and made sure i had all my books but no… they recommended Faststart.<\/p>\n

But I have made a discovery that I would like to share with you all.<\/p>\n

www.amazon.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember this. Add it to your favorites because there are a number of your books that can be purchased here (especially English books, etc.) and they will end up costing you about half of the cost from even getting a used book from the Student Bookstore and this is because sometimes you can get perfectly readable copies for $0.01! This means $3.95 for shipping and handling and the book cost you only $4 and some planning!<\/p>\n

Sweet sweet frugality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, I am going to get this off of my chest for one final time, and you all can consider yourselves lucky that you weren’t one of the first to hear this. So I sign-up for Faststart….. Faststart is supposed to be this way of getting all your books, without waiting in the line-up; they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faststart","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thefirst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}