Blog Post #9 Summary

    My original idea for the project came out of frustration of the textbook situation that seems to occur with quite a few students every semester, including my own struggles, as well as the slow process of reimbursement of loan money by the bursar's office, money which students like myself use to buy their textbooks. There is also a problem with book stores making mistakes with the number of books they order, and then class progression is slowed as a result. While students have the option of going to places like amazon to buy the necessary texts, it is inconvenient and often doesn't make it in time putting the student behind academically from the very beginning. Not to mention the outrageous prices charged by the bookstore because they basically own a monopoly on the buying and selling of textbooks. My company would be the trust buster putting an end to the blatant robbery of already financially strained individuals and their families.

     When I started the project I had no idea of the different technical processes that would be involved in making my idea a reality and while I am still in the dark to some of those ideas, I have a better grasp than when I went into this. I also didn't realize how much, technologically that is, that it would take to create a functional site such as the one I'm proposing. I also now realize that it might be a stretch to try and get universities on board with my proposed operation as they are a part of the aforementioned monopoly and they're not going to stop something that provides them with even more money. However, I think I would find no resistance in pitching my idea to students.

     While I now realize that my idea is a little bit more complicated than originally anticipated, I still believe that the main idea is still a good one. As a student I can relate to the issues that students run into, whereas university book stores, and even some professors could care less. This is a major issue that mostly remains as a common complaint among students, but not a priority among higher ups. It hurts students academically, and financially in major ways, and would be a useful thing to put an end to...finally.

These are the urls for the 3 student's blogs that I commented on. I was a little confused before and posted it before as a blog post (blog post number 5), which is why this is titled blog post number 9 instead of 8, sorry for the confusion.

http://jessicagiloley.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post-1-january-31st-2011.html#comment-form

http://thefutureof-fashion.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-1-eye-color.html?showComment=1298947137384#c9208307982231151558

http://theartofperfectinglife.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-1-computing-twitter.html?showComment=1298947726699#c3349386783953013356