Follett’s Book Store, Miami Dade College

The joy of being accepted for the nursing program faded faster than Michael Jackson’s face when I realized that the bookstore (run independently of MDC by a company called Follett’s) was the sole provider of pretty much everything that I needed to have, NONE of which was in stock. That’s right. Empty shelves of books that are mandatory. Nothing but Andres the Giant-​sized uniform scrubs, also mandatory. Out of mandatory lab supplies. The excuse for the embroidered scrubs was re-​branding. But they knew a new logo would grace the cheap, scratchy, and astronomically overpriced scrubs five months before the semester started, and I’m getting flack for not wearing scrubs that acknowledge the generosity of the dude that donated a couple of million to the school. Look, I’ll name my kid «The Benjamin Leon School of Nursing» if you knuckle dragging gorillas could just get your act together and evolve your way sometime into this millennia when e-​readers were invented. I don’t intend that to the minions working at this ‘bookstore’, the don’t make the prices, I know but it is frustrating every time you have to walk into this place knowing you are about to get financially anally gang-​banged by clueless corporate aging boomers who probably don’t know how to use a computer (have you seen the pathetic attempt at a webpage?) because that’s something secretaries do while they are busy fleecing us into academic indentured servitude.
Then there are other points. EVERY single text should be available in electronic format, legally. I mean, only luddites actually use BOOKS these days, which is why Border’s and Barnes and Nobles are going belly up in droves like fish after an oil spill. WTF, you’d think an institution of higher learning would try to be on even keel with the modern world, they may as well hand us an abacus for math class or chalk and slate for English and then send us off to our job interviews with beepers. No, instead we have 9, yes NINE required books for the first semester, each one weighing roughly the same as a smartcar, but not as smart cause it’s PRINTED ON PAPER, made from trees; with only TWO having electronic options.
The only thing saving the place and earning the extra star is the staff. That’s pretty much it. How bout getting rid of the bookstore, Miami Dade Medical Campus, and giving us a gym and just let us do all of our supply ordering online, since the prices are better anyways.