Imagine taking on $50k in student loans to live in a windowless room

rrrrrrrrrrrryan · on Nov 28, 2023

"Imagine taking out much smaller student loans, to live in a space with vastly improved common areas, and having your own isolated space to sleep instead of having to share it with 1-2 others."

To be clear, I think the building is awful and fails at most of its stated goals, but I think the goals themselves were solid.

Waterluvian · on Nov 28, 2023

Sure. But it’s kind of a bizarre form of treating the symptoms of a deeply broken financial model rather than the causes.

My eyes popped the first time I learned what my American colleagues paid for their education.