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When the children of cheesemaking Duxbury residents go off to college
By adamg on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 9:34am
One of the first things they do is start whining to administrators that their $50,000 a year should buy them common areas where the couches aren't haphazardly arranged, the Globe's Sarah Schweitzer informs us, in another of her exposes on the seamy underbelly of the overclass.
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Here's how it went for me this morning
Shower. Coffee. Boston.com. Lead sentence
of Sarah Schweitzer's piece on dorm rooms
and "window dressings". Finally, universalhub.com,
where to my immense satisfaction, it was the lead
item.
Spring is here. Time to replace the French Toast
alert systems with a Garlic Scape and Artisinal Cheese
Distant Early Warning. UH, a NORAD for the new
millennia!
Not to be an apologist for blow-out cheese-making coverage ...
... but the Campus Crib story is already on Boston.com's most emailed list.
So, either there are a lot of people marveling at the story's absurdity, or some folks find it interesting ...
Bring Back the Draft
...
I did not enjoy having roommmates in college
But it was an important lesson for me, almost as important as the classes themselves. Students should not live luxe! That's for when they make their own damn money.
times change
When my grandfather went to school, he shared a huge dorm with 50 other students. When my dad went to school, he lived with a roommate in a tiny room with institutional furniture. My brother was lucky enough to have cable in his. I had internet access.
Compare what we have now to what our grandparents had. Everything evolves. There is nothing wrong with change.
Oh, yes, the poor kids of today
In my day, when we didn't like the way the couches were arranged in our common areas, we re-arranged the furniture ourselves. And we liked it!