Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t matter to me. DS was accepted to his first choice and I told him he could attend on his own dime. His father and I discussed the matter and we were not sending him into enemy territory and we definitely would not pay for his tuition, room and board just so that he could attend FSU. Btw, I am an alum of FSU.

Sounds like a prime opportunity to distance himself for life from two lunatics. I would jump at that. "Enemy territory."

Meanwhile, none of what is predicted to happen in this thread will ever happen. None of the extremes, and none of the "exodus" or avoidance of Florida Universities. Let's come back in exactly a year and see how dumb all these predictions were.

Doesn’t matter to me. DS was accepted to his first choice and I told him he could attend on his own dime. His father and I discussed the matter and we were not sending him into enemy territory and we definitely would not pay for his tuition, room and board just so that he could attend FSU. Btw, I am an alum of FSU.

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There are not tons of people flooding Florida universities any more than before. Public universities in Florida are limited by state law to have no more than 10% of their students from out of state. And my child is one of them. She went for the weather. She will leave because of the policies.

I don't think a college decision based on weather is a reason I would admit.

A win for the First Amendment and a loss for DeSantis & Co.

Anonymous wrote:Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

Both my kids went to school in the NE and had kitchens in their dorm. But no one is going to cook all their meals there and not buy a meal plan - it's just not feasible.

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There are not tons of people flooding Florida universities any more than before. Public universities in Florida are limited by state law to have no more than 10% of their students from out of state. And my child is one of them. She went for the weather. She will leave because of the policies.

And private UMiami has always been a target of rich out-of-staters.

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There is nothing political about what DeSantis is doing to New College? Really?

Do you find it political when other governors make their own appointments to their state universities?
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Sure, it is political--after all the governor is elected. Do you consider it political when the President chooses a cabinet?

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There is nothing political about what DeSantis is doing to New College? Really?

Do you find it political when other governors make their own appointments to their state universities?
DP

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There are not tons of people flooding Florida universities any more than before. Public universities in Florida are limited by state law to have no more than 10% of their students from out of state. And my child is one of them. She went for the weather. She will leave because of the policies.

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

There is nothing political about what DeSantis is doing to New College? Really?

Anonymous wrote:Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

My college dorm had a kitchen but in practice it was basically useless.

The cookware was constantly being used but not washed, so you had to do the dishes twice every time you wanted to cook. If you left anything in the communal fridge it would get stolen and dorm fridges simply aren't big enough to keep enough ingredients for more than a meal or two. Cooking "European style" - getting fresh ingredients every day - isn't practical for most people who live on campus, especially if you don't have a car. Plus having to cart all your ingredients from your dorm room to the kitchen every meal sucks. The oven smoked like crazy every time you used it because people would let their food drip everywhere and nobody ever cleaned it out. And each kitchen was shared by 36 dorm rooms so there was no guarantee it wouldn't be being used when you needed it. If you had an hour before class or a ton of homework and you were hungry now but someone had just started using the kitchen before you - too bad, sucks to be you.

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Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

There is nothing political about Florida universities and this entire thread should be moved to education. There are tons of people from NE states and California flooding Florida universities regardless of their policies. I think people will vote with their money at the end.

Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

This is the political discussion, so let's stay on topic, okay?

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Anonymous wrote:Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

My kid's dorm room at GW had a kitchen. Lots of school dorms have kitchens.

GW requires all students who live on campus to buy a meal plan. That not what PP was talking about. He was saying that in Florida schools they have a choice either to buy a meal plan or to cook their meals in the dorm kitchens.

We didn't have to plunk an entire semester's meals into his meal plan at GW. We just put a few hundred bucks into his GET account for meals and for laundry and would periodically add more to it as he used it. And any unused balance rolled over to the next semester. Wasn't a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:Politics aside, we are from NE ant toured both UF and FSU last month. So far these are the only two schools that we've seen that have kitchens in the dorms. How cool is that that 1st year students are not mandated to purchase ridiculously overpriced meal plans and can cook for themselves healthy meals?

My dorm in the NE had a kitchen in it back in the 1980s. No one was forced to purchase a meal plan.