August 22, 2005
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You know who's staying in those dorms? I'll tell you who's staying in those dorms.
Freshmen, that's who.
Got a piece of mail (what the point is, though, this late in the month,
I don't know) from Tech urging incoming freshmen to not live
off-campus, citing the higher GPA for those who reside on-campus.What intrigued me was the comparison of numbers by year (it doesn't
specify, but I'm assuming this is for last year or the year prior):Freshmen:
On campus - 3,834
Off campus - 1,817Sophomore:
On campus - 807
Off campus - 4,760Junior:
On campus - 348
Off campus - 4,882Senior:
On campus - 212
Off campus - 6,593That's an anstonishing disproportion after the first year!
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At Tech it is just assumed you don't live in the dorm past your freshman year. I'm not sure they have the space for people to stay longer. We all need to start saving up furniture to pass on to Charles for his own apartment when he moves out. He'll need to find a house/apt with one to three other guys. Everyone will be doing the same thing, so it's not difficult.
Don says the advice he's been receiving is to simply buy a house out there....that it's cheaper than renting.
If you own the house, though, all the long distance landlord headaches come with it.
That might offset the difference in cost pretty quickly, in a college town, since I'm sure you're not the sort of folks who would be pleased to be negligent college town-type landlords.
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