— When I was a student, I barely had room for the desk and the bed, said the 32-year-old German engineer,
– Well, when I was a student, we were two people in that room, 2 desks, a sink and a fridge; and our showers were shared between 4 people, I said, with my coarse French accent, recalling memories of water dripping off our roof in winter.
- Ahem, started the Russian, I was in a top engineering school in the countryside of Moscow. We were 3 in that room. We didn't have water, we had 18 shared taps downstairs for 300 people. Electricity was scarce with no ground plug, so in the heat of the winter, when the frozen wind blew on our windows, everyone used their secondary heating and electricity would go off for the night. The water dripping from the ceiling? It didn't drip. It was frozen.
Of course costs and wages need to be studied, but what I see all across those examples is desk. No-one in good engineering schools would seriously work on their bed, no matter how little room they had.
– Well, when I was a student, we were two people in that room, 2 desks, a sink and a fridge; and our showers were shared between 4 people, I said, with my coarse French accent, recalling memories of water dripping off our roof in winter.
- Ahem, started the Russian, I was in a top engineering school in the countryside of Moscow. We were 3 in that room. We didn't have water, we had 18 shared taps downstairs for 300 people. Electricity was scarce with no ground plug, so in the heat of the winter, when the frozen wind blew on our windows, everyone used their secondary heating and electricity would go off for the night. The water dripping from the ceiling? It didn't drip. It was frozen.
Of course costs and wages need to be studied, but what I see all across those examples is desk. No-one in good engineering schools would seriously work on their bed, no matter how little room they had.