Biggest rip-offs

CNN Money names a few.

On the list--that college bitch-fest standby: textbooks.

I myself spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, as the Indigo Girls sagely said.

I keep waiting for the Internet/Kindle/SOMETHING to solve this old, old problem.

But old students never die; they just ride off moaning about tuition hikes, textbook costs and on-campus parking as the next freshmen class rolls in and starts screeching about the same.

And don't get me started about the cost of Milwaukee's Best on tap at ladies' night. Why when I was a young co-ed . . . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.