If you think that is the moral of the story then you fail. |
Nope. Sorry. I reject your world view and your crappy fable. |
Wash. U. has good food and nice dorms. Just sayin’ |
Ok you people need to start naming names. My DC is at a private on the west coast. Dorm year 1, on campus apartment year 2 with a kitchen and only the basic meal plan. And then off campus year 3. No meal plan at all. Zero Mold in any of her livings spaces. And Full AC. It all has been better than my first adult apartment post grad tbh. If you made a mistake in selecting or vetting a school’s living conditions that accountability is on you. |
nobody made a mistake. they're touring now and vetting the school's living conditions. reading the thread is on you. they named names |
Was a bit hyperbolic as only the first-year dorms have had dorm issues, and it's admittedly small. Also a west coast private. Though, it is known for lack of AC for most first year students. I don't think it is a "mistake" however to not know about these things. The college is pretty secretive about dorm conditions unless you have a college email, and they only let tours through the now sophomore best south campus dorm. |
Why don't you name this school? |
It's not my fable. It's Aesop, a cornerstone of western literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop They can teach about this at lots of schools, crappy dorms and all. |
+1 |
PP. I'm well aware of Aesop. I mentioned this in my original response. I didn't go to any of the schools namechecked, whether the dorms were crappy or fancy. No need to cover Aesop's Fables in college. Already covered in elementary school. I find your namechecking and presentation of the fable rather smug. (I noticed you copy-pasted a huge fraction of it, rather than type it out from your classically-educated, ancient world bardic memory). I continue to object to your world view that sour grapes are what's causing people to complain about poor conditions at expensive schools. I correct my post to read "your smug presentation of a fable." For the record, the first time I ran across a semi-permanent colony of feral housecats was on the north side of Georgetown U's campus. My bf rented a space in a room in a Burleith slumlord's ratty townhouse. It recently became a $1M to-the-studs teardown. I know exactly what these complainers are talking about. I've also been in parts of Ivy campuses that failed to wow or were old/dirty/broken down. Completely factual. No fable. |
Is this the most low-brow DCUM thread of all time? Has to be a contender. |
+500 Official tours are a time-consuming bore. All colleges claim to be close-knit families with cutting-edge facilities & caring professors who will prepare you for the future. Most questions can be answered by looking at the web site. You can demonstrate interest without the official tour. |
So don’t send your kids there. See how easy? Why complain publicly about it unless sour grapes? Thanks for correcting your previous post. |
Please refer to the thread topic. |
That was my college experience in the 80s. And the food was terrible then. We grumbled about the outlandish $5,000 a year they charged us, lmao. |