Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

amplifytheworld:

referencesforartists:

brenanf999:

dontwantyourmoneysir:

anndruyan:

This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download. 

 Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks

Textbooknova 

Reddit

Bookboon 

Textbookrevolution 

GaTech Math Textbooks

Ebookee 

Freebookspot 

Free-ebooks

Getfreeebooks 

BookFinder

Oerconsortium 

Project Gutenberg

Spreading this shit like nutella because goddamn textbooks are so expensive. 

not necessarily art related but as someone who couldn’t afford their textbooks this semester this is a godsend

REBLOGGING because after a little digging, I found my $200 textbook for free in PDF form.

(via bleedingwillow96)

deanplease:

brinconvenient:

micdotcom:

These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days 

A company called Doppler Labs just finished the prototype for an incredible new technology that has the potential to change live concerts and even the way we hear the world. It’s called Here Active Listening, and it’s a wireless earbud that, instead of playing music, lets you control the sound of the world around you.

With the understanding that I don’t have sensory processing problems, I feel like this would be incredibly useful for people with sensory processing issues - like, when everything sounds equally loud, being about to filter out the sudden sirens, beeping, chatter, etc would be a miracle!

oh my fucking GOD

^^I do have sensory processing issues and I CAN CONFIRM THAT THIS WOULD BE GREAT.  I don’t have problems all the time, usually my filters are pretty good, but the more stressed I am the more work they take.  So…lack of sleep, long day of classes, and then I walk into a loud, crowded space and BAM overload.  I worked in my college’s dining hall last semester and I would get to the point of having to put my head down and cover my ears to avoid having a full-on meltdown in public–I was almost fired and I had to beg the person running the dining hall to let me bring headphones in so that I could function.  I would have killed to have something like these.

(Source: mic.com, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)