Scarab was the brainchild of my close friend Jeremy. He was outraged that his alma mater, Wesleyan University, was buying back textbooks for scraps at the end of the year then re-selling them at a ridiculous margin the next year; what college doesn’t? But Jeremy, having been thoroughly trained to challenge all social order (ironically, probably in a large part by going to Wesleyan), decided to do something about it. He wanted to make a simple online forum for students to fill out forms to look for textbook buyers online. Because textbook choices vary between schools, having an intra-campus network would surely be more effective. Of course, he had to name it with a very obviously forced acronym.

So I designed a database, forums (or is it fora? It totally should be fora. I took Latin for 3 years), and a couple HTML/PHP forms to do just that. Not exactly sure how much Jeremy put them into use, but the site disappeared with his graduation.

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