Posted on 08/26/2017 12:35:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This apartment-like suite might be appropriate for those who work, and entertain guests...but students? I kinda agree that most kids will arrive and have a 10-month plan to survive a class-year at some university, and a 6 by 12 ft room, with access to some communal shower is about all that 90-percent care about. Throw a poster up on the wall, and you’ve got a brief home for 10 months.
For some idiot who has an entertainment plan, a nightly cooking plan, and seeking to look like some long-term renter....he’ll run out of hours in the day to study and complete home-work.
Yes, inexpensive rooms are the best for the great majority of college students. I think that upscale dorms are marketed at upscale parents, not students. The steeply increasing price and debt load of college is a major problem.
When you reach some stage where $200,000 is the standard for some kid to get a fancy-pants degree....you might as well send the kid off to Europe for four years and let them self-educate themselves with the money. You’d get the same result in the end.
upscale dorms are for people who do it realize they should be spending most nights at the library hitting the books.
I took #2 and made it look a hell of a lot more like #1 than #2. I had a bar (3 person mdf with faux leather front, buttons a bar top with a rail and one pathetic shelf behind it mind you). I had a sectional. I had 3/4th inch padding under my fitted luxury carpet remnant. I had a coffee table which could flip over to a game table. I put a 200 watt bulb in the light and with live wires installed a dimmer. I painted the room beige adding a dark brown accent trim. I had wall hangings, not posters. It was a good time. Bar $20 from a garage sale. Sectional $50 from a garage sale. Remnant and underlayment free from a friend. Coffee table $30 bucks also from a garage sale. Gay friend over one room (Brings in hot chicks). Weed dealer across the hall. Campus cop up three rooms (Loved me and was a good buddy). Used to study with the door open. Big TV on one side of the bar. Small but good component stereo.
Those were the days... Poker games half the week and poke her games the other half. Girls would walk through our hall an stop and stare. I would invite them in. I am sitting here grinning and reminiscing. Good good times.
I was if you build it they will come before the movie.
When cheap money started flowing after the GFC, crap shacks and run down apartment buildings were replaced with upscale apartment buildings. Anyone that hasn't been to campus in 10 years wouldn't recognize the main drag and surrounding areas. At least one of the new apartment towers is considered luxury. The campus also replaced many rundown dorms. I suspect many of those dorms have the amenities to compete with the new apartment buildings.
Very informative article. This Gen-X parent of three college students has two words to add: Community College.
Most students move off-campus after their Freshman year, anyway.
That’s a fancy room. Kid has a microwave and fridge.
Way nicer than what I had.
That's where my daughter is going, but I really can't complain about the tuition there compared with other schools.
Bingo! And 15 years from now, nobody will know or care that they went to a community college. They may care somewhat if they graduated from a decent 4 year college after community college, but unless you’re in there pitching for a job at a top tier law or accounting firm, nobody will care where you graduated from. And if they do, you don’t want to work there anyway.
Exactly. I accept that young people are almost certainly going to need a college credential to get going in their careers, but the additional value of $250,000 worth as opposed to $25,000 (or less) just isn't there, in my opinion.
$25,000 is what it cost my oldest son to complete 3 years of community college (he flailed a bit at first) and 2 years of university, while living at home. He has a business degree, no debt, and a job with considerable advancement potential at an investment company.
Also, I like your tagline!
This university, citing increased enrollment, tore down an old dorm and built a brand new 'residence hall'. This building holds the same number of students as the old one, just in bigger, nicer rooms.
When I was in college in the eighties I rented a large two bedroom apartment and cooked my own food for two thirds of what it would have cost to live in the dorms.
Add in a room mate part of the time and it was cheaper still.
During that time, Oklahoma State University shut down several large dorms for lack of occupancy.
What do you suppose might have caused people to not live in the dorms?
A long article, but not one word that I could see about how federal intrusion into higher ed financing caused the lux dorms in the first place.
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