Purchase Class Notes?

[twester]

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An organization at my school is selling class notes for pharmacy law. I have two questions:

1. Are notes generally useful?

2. How much should they cost? (These notes are $51 which seems a little steep; but what do I know?)

I'm thinking I'm going to be bankrupted if I can't figure out how to accurately judge what's useful or not as I move through school.

 

[Requiem]

An organization at my school is selling class notes for pharmacy law. I have two questions:

1. Are notes generally useful?

2. How much should they cost? (These notes are $51 which seems a little steep; but what do I know?)

I'm thinking I'm going to be bankrupted if I can't figure out how to accurately judge what's useful or not as I move through school.

I'd like to have notes on more relevant topics, like pharmacology or therapeutics, maybe metabolism.

It's always refreshing to see someone else's point of view on what's important, and how they organize / condense the material.

 

[prlester]

I'd like to have notes on more relevant topics, like pharmacology or therapeutics, maybe metabolism.

It's always refreshing to see someone else's point of view on what's important, and how they organize / condense the material.

how do class notes work for pharmacy school?

 

[twester]

how do class notes work for pharmacy school?

It turns out these "class notes" for my pharm law class are actually the required reading material. I will probably mention my disdain for being required to subsidize a student organization in the course evaluation. I could have printed out that material for less money.

It's my understanding that class notes are the notes from a previous year - presumably an aggregate of different points of view of the lectures?

 

[Requiem]

how do class notes work for pharmacy school?

Our doesn't have them.

The closest thing we have is you're given two buddies when you start- a P2 and a P3. If you can grab some assignments/labs off them that'll probably be it.

 

[golf299]

I know a little about the school you're talking about with the law notes. You'll need them, but how you get them is up to you. You could just wait for someone else to buy them and then copy theirs...if you think that would be cheaper... it may or not be.

In the future, you will not have to buy such notes. Most notes will be available online for free, or over at Moss Printing for a nominal fee, or both. You need the law notes for the present and future, make sure you get them.

For your school career you will come to rely on the class notes, believe me. Try keeping up with the reading in the required text by DiPiro: Pharmacotherapy, a Pathophysiologic Approach, and you'll see what I mean.

 

[twester]

Thanks. Yeah, I'm starting to figure out these things. It's good to know that the mandatory donation situation isn't commonplace. I'll go ahead and buy them. I just wish the course coordinator would put the pdf files online so I can just read the material online rather than to waste all that paper.

I don't mind paying for required notes as long as $30 isn't tacked on to subsidize some pet organization.