Posted on 09/03/2009 9:41:40 AM PDT by george76
Despite the million-dollar vista, this is not the penthouse suite of a four-star hotel or a luxury condominium in the Back Bay. It’s the common room of a Boston University dorm, perhaps the most opulent residence hall to ever grace the local college landscape. Name tags taped to students’ doors say it all: “Skyview from the Center of the BUniverse.’’
“Sometimes I miss the elevator because I’m too busy looking out the window,’’ said Rina Beyda, a junior from Los Angeles and one of just 14 students lucky enough to land a room on the 25th floor, the highest residential level.
The view is not the only amenity. So luxurious is the 960-bed dorm that parents’ jaws dropped in disbelief when they helped their children move in last week. The suites of singles and doubles, with elegantly furnished common rooms, large private baths, walk-in closets, and floor-length mirrors, resemble nothing like what older generations remember of their college housing - sterile cinder-block boxes with institutional bunk beds and a communal bathroom down the hall.
Some critics - jealous, perhaps - may question why BU bothered to erect such posh quarters to house a bunch of college students, and whether the new dorm represents another sign of coddling the young. Standards for college housing have risen significantly over the years, with Northeastern University and Emerson College also unveiling new luxe accommodations this fall.
Samantha Barbosa, the 25th senior in last spring’s housing lottery, chose to shell out nearly $13,000 a year for a 25th-floor apartment in the gleaming tower, nearly $5,000 more than she would have paid for a standard dorm room.
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Heck, the dorm room I was in 25 years ago was a refurbished luxury hotel, complete with view of Lake Michigan. It included high ceilings and windows, private bathroom, and walk in closet even then. They did chop the Crystal Ballroom in half to but in a laundry room.
Wow! None of that PC 'everyone is equal' stuff here! You got the bucks, you got the suite. You have no bucks? You got the room in the 100-year-old 'historic' dorm without windows and no AC in the basement next to the boiler room.
But an 'A' for each kid is an 'A'. You hope. Unless daddy donated the skyscraper dorm. Ah, those college days.
How does this jive the liberal attitudes most if not all of the students will hold after graduating. Oh yeah, its the little people that should live in poverty.
Also had a great view of the quadrangle.
Damn, I miss college! All I had to do was keep my grades up, and nobody hassled me.
“I applied by myself because my friends were all too cheap to live here,’’ said Barbosa, who is paying for the room with student loans. “For the past three years, I lived in the lowest-priced dorms. Being a senior, I’ve worked really hard and I figured I deserve to live in a place like this.’’
Just damn!
A few years from now it will be just another run-down Animal House. Non-stop parties tend to do that to a building.
Daughter of Captain Barbosa? 
She’ll make a fine little Boston liberal won’t she?
She’s a fourth year college student and she’s “worked hard and deserves this.” (?)
Something tells me she has never worked a menial student type job (say at KFC) either, and would not even consider the possibility.
“Until then, students looking for high-end quarters must enter the housing lottery and hope they draw a number low enough to qualify for the new dorm. Samantha Barbosa, the 25th senior in last spring’s housing lottery, chose to shell out nearly $13,000 a year for a 25th-floor apartment in the gleaming tower, nearly $5,000 more than she would have paid for a standard dorm room.
“I applied by myself because my friends were all too cheap to live here,’’ said Barbosa, who is paying for the room with student loans. “For the past three years, I lived in the lowest-priced dorms. Being a senior, I’ve worked really hard and I figured I deserve to live in a place like this.”
Samantha is a myopic idiot. My teenager has more common sense.
There’s nothing wrong with rich parents paying for luxuries for their kids, if that’s what the parents want to do. Of course, the wealthiest student I personally knew in college had parents that did not spoil him [he lived in normal dorms and apartments with friends, drove an old US car, etc].
However, here we have someone intentionally taking out higher loans for the sole purpose of being pampered. Probably a future Democrat community organizer.
Besides, being without luxury in school is fun. I did not own a TV until I was married at 28, and I never missed a thing!
Shes entitled to live in a nice place, paid for with other peoples’ money!
“She’ll make a fine little Boston liberal won’t she?”
Ha! We each came to the same conclusion.
Indeed.
Part of the reason rich liberals are never happy, is that they don’t have the satisfaction of suffering,compromise and sacrifice and then finally success after hard work and toil.
It is a curse to never have sacrificed or worked hard to accomplish a goal. It is a sure path to miserable failure and decadence. Look at the Kennedy family.
And to think, two weeks ago while moving my son into the dorm at TX Tech, I was impressed that he and his buddy got a corner dorm room as Freshmen.
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