You would be shocked if you knew how many of the students live - subsidizing it all with student loans. No way will they live in a dormitory or share a room. They live in apartments with big screen tvs and swimming pools. They eat in restaurants, not cafeterias.
You’d be even more shocked if you knew how easy it is to get through some majors with honors. Professors don’t take attendance so one person takes notes while the other get much needed sleep. Exams? LOL No. You submit a paper - frequently downloaded from the internet. If a professor ever dared to have an unannounced quiz - the dean would hear about it.
Totally agree. The snowflakes have no concept of $$$. They think they have to live in only the best apartment. Just checked and the average apt rental with 3 beds is $2140/mo. The contract is from August to August no matter if you take summers off or not. Oh, but, but that’s divided by 3 roommates! Uh, no bleepin’ way, kiddo. That’s still $2140 to you when your roommates move out or they don’t make their payments. When they don’t make their payments your parents, who cosigned for you, get hit with the full bill and get their credit messed up. And that’s the average. Precious fragile snowflakes think they have to live high on the hog while taking the bare min. 9 hrs/semester instead of the 18-21 hrs. we took back in the day.
Back in the day, college students were poor. There was no such thing as all these government grants and loans. There were Pell Grants but our HS counselor never told us about them.
The campus lunchroom was closed on the weekends so Saturday it was a 45 cent can of spaghetti-o’s or a 25 cent box of mac ‘n cheese. I splurged on Sunday by walking (no car until Sr. year) to Golden Chicken for their $1.50 box with one piece of chicken fries and a roll and stopped by the coke machine for a drink. That was before microwaves and mini refrigerators in the rooms. The only appliances allowed were irons and popcorn poppers. I brought an ancient popcorn popper that had a burner in the bottom so I could pour the spaghetti into the popper part and heat it. Weenies could be heated on a foil wrapped iron but you had to have friends over to share the weenies because there wasn’t a fridge.
I sewed my clothes and remember making something new the day before dates. Our only twirler was a good friend so we’d rip apart whatever she wore to the football game last week and redesign it for that week’s game. Everyone thought she had tons of outfits, lol. Fabric and sewing notions were cheap back then. Can’t see kids doing that these days.