Well, they haven't paid for mine yet. i still have loans that will need to be paid once I'm out of school.

 

tuition is the cheap part, i live on campus and am on the meal plan, and pay for my own textbooks, last year was in excess of 800 a semester (1600+ total for BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!) at least i only have one more year.

and josh, my parents buy the oil and filter for the truck but i do the changes myself ever 5k miles(the manual claims you can go up to 7500 miles but that just doesnt sit well with me, 5k is long enough)

 

I agree with you shrps change it before it is bad it will save you headaches down the road

 

You guys are spoiled youngens!

 

+1 Hydra, and its great! lol

Yeah i go every 3k miles and I've heard that as well. That some cars can go as long as 10k miles without an oil change i thought that was ridiculous. My sisters car is a 2000 Malibu and in 20k miles we changed the oil once ourselves. I kept telling my parents that no oil change can cause an engine to seize up and the motor to go bad. i had a free oil change and used it on her car.

Nobody else seems to worry about those types of things but me lol

Shrp thats real expensive for books! the worst part is you get only a fraction of that money back when you try to sell the books back. at least thats how it is here.

 

i cant sell most of them, i need them as reference for other classes, by the time i am done using them the new edition will be out and i wont be able to sell them at all

no comment to hydra, just go back to your alcohol and leave us college kids alone

also josh, my mom drives an x5 and had (ok has till the end of this month) full coverage on all maintenance (done at the dealer), however they wont change the oil, or anything else until the computer in the car tells them, she goes anywhere from 15-20k on an oil change, and now its saying service due in 2300 miles (which will be out of the plans coverage based on time) and they wont do the service for her.

in summary, DONT WASTE MONEY ON A BMW

 

Yeah who needs those fancy European cars? lol but that is insane 15-20k miles between oil changes? must be some crazy oil they use!

And that sucks about the books. I'm still in my first year sort of since I'm on a transfer program i only take 8-12 credits a semester all math and science and core classes in the lower levels. I'm shooting for mechanical engineering lol theres my life story! haha

 

i feel your pain in going into year 4 of the mech eng program at Stevens Institute of Technology (one of the best mech eng schools in the country) im planning to be done in May of 2012, its a program that take most people 5 years to finish even tho it was designed as a 4 year program, now i think you understand why i dont work while im taking classes, and why i live on campus, the workload doesnt allow much time for anything else

 

What, college kids are the largest connoisseur of binge drinking. And just like myself, we're putting Americans to work.......


Regardless, your still spoiled! .....

 

i dont think you realize how much more i actually do to earn my own than most kids my age, most of the kids i went to hs with got brand new cars the day they turned 17, i had to buy my first truck (98 dakota) and i bought the D off my parents when my mom got a new car (the D was her DD for 5 years before i got it) and i do all the maintance on the cars, and all the yard work and alot of the house repairs at this point, so im not getting everything for free and im not afraid to work (i know you never said i was, just putting it out there) for what i have, and i have been (and continue to) work my *** off at college so that when i graduate ill have a decent start in real life.