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The navy pays people to live like that; the university is charging people. Not sure this is comparable.

• busterarm 5y ago
  If the education were worth a damn, people would be climbing over each other to get into those dorms. The juice not being worth the squeeze is not the dorms' fault.
  • rtkwe 5y ago
    The goal when designing something isn't to be as shitty as will be tolerated. And people are doing lots to get these educations... going massively in debt seems like a pretty strong indicator that people want the education I'd say.
    • busterarm 5y ago
      Correlation != Causation. American kids go massively into debt because their parents, their legislators and their universities have largely failed them. Kids aren't given a proper financial education before making the biggest financial decision of their lives. Laws were written to make student debt the most secure form of debt ever for lenders. Schools flush with public money have done nothing but increase the costs of education in ways that are often hardly visible or impactful for their students. American students get an incredibly poor ROI for their education on average. Pick your degree wisely.
      • rtkwe 5y ago
        > Correlation != Causation. So people not clamoring to live in a shit windowless shoebox of a dorm might not reflect on the quality of the education?
        • busterarm 5y ago
          Students will deal with it for the eduation. I'm aware of a far less prestigious school where when they ran out of dorms they converted an abandoned super 8 motel for 3 years and the building was absolutely filthy and in terrible shape (it needed a new roof) and it was still full of students.