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"I know nothing about Charlie Munger's UCSB plan, but it appears that he already funded a dorm with this design at U Michigan. The building seems to be rated 8.

"I know nothing about Charlie Munger's UCSB plan, but it appears that he already funded a dorm with this design at U Michigan. The building seems to be rated 8.8/10 by residents, and that appears to be the highest rating of any campus apartments. https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-campus https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c..." [0] [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickc/status/1454201794620375042 https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickc/status/14542017946203750...

travisd 5y ago
Having spent all of 20 minutes inside one of these apartments, they're not at all comparable. It'd be more akin to the popular "urban 1 bedroom" apartments I see in various places (including Seattle, where I am) that feature windowless bedrooms. This new building is a kafkaesque study in cramming sardines into 5'x5' boxes.
pfortuny 5y ago
Any addict will rate cocaine above 8/10. Ratings mean notjing in real life, sanitary conditions or health. Maybe the others are just crap over crap.
- beepbooptheory 5y ago
  Addicts are probably the most discriminating when it comes to rating drugs. Bad coke can be really bad.
sithadmin 5y ago
Munger also sponsored (in part) the Lawyer's Club residences that are adjacent to the law school at Michigan. The facilities there, while quite overpriced relative to the (already obscenely priced) local real estate market, are really pretty good as far as graduate dormitories go. But the rooms are also about 3x larger than the proposed UCSB rooms, and have windows.
yumraj 5y ago
Scroll down: Certainly not "this" design. Graduate residence building at Michigan vs. undergrad at UCSB. Bedrooms at Michigan twice the size as the UCSB ones. Individual bathrooms vs. shared ones. https://twitter.com/MDrelichman/status/1454204021414133763?s=20 https://twitter.com/MDrelichman/status/1454204021414133763?s...

travisd 5y ago

Having spent all of 20 minutes inside one of these apartments, they're not at all comparable. It'd be more akin to the popular "urban 1 bedroom" apartments I see in various places (including Seattle, where I am) that feature windowless bedrooms. This new building is a kafkaesque study in cramming sardines into 5'x5' boxes.

pfortuny 5y ago

Any addict will rate cocaine above 8/10. Ratings mean notjing in real life, sanitary conditions or health. Maybe the others are just crap over crap.

beepbooptheory 5y ago
Addicts are probably the most discriminating when it comes to rating drugs. Bad coke can be really bad.

sithadmin 5y ago

Munger also sponsored (in part) the Lawyer's Club residences that are adjacent to the law school at Michigan. The facilities there, while quite overpriced relative to the (already obscenely priced) local real estate market, are really pretty good as far as graduate dormitories go. But the rooms are also about 3x larger than the proposed UCSB rooms, and have windows.

yumraj 5y ago

Scroll down: Certainly not "this" design. Graduate residence building at Michigan vs. undergrad at UCSB. Bedrooms at Michigan twice the size as the UCSB ones. Individual bathrooms vs. shared ones. https://twitter.com/MDrelichman/status/1454204021414133763?s=20 https://twitter.com/MDrelichman/status/1454204021414133763?s...