Eh, I just got out of the mental hospital and frankly the food there was one of the worst eating experiences of my life. I didn’t eat anything but the mashed potatoes for days, because it was all I could stomach. I felt nauseous all the time. So coming from someone who’s been there, I empathise with these kids - and…

Unmarried Karen Seeks Becky?

I remember watching this and being HELLA surprised that a woman masturbating was shown onscreen! Of course, it’s an exploitation flick so it’s to show that Hedy (alone in her room with every expectation of privacy) is CRAZY ‘cause she gets herself off. Meanwhile her spying roomie is shown as shocked/turned on, and…

Well, the families of students who do pay full sticker price certainly have a right to be entitled to a certain extent, but you’re absolutely right that they need to lean into the “shared hardship” thing. This is close to living through a war/siege as most of us are ever going to get, so we all need to do a certain…

Mentioned in one of those tweets, but not brought out in the article (perhaps because it’s familiar to their audience), is the cost of attending NYU. I think that the full sticker price of it, before any financial aid, is $75k a year.

Let me clarify, then.

Schools, like a lot of businesses, budget according to what they expect to happen within a certain time frame. With the economy “great” before this, I’m sure more than a few schools felt comfortable increasing activity fees to pay for the amenities and football teams they furnish students with. Schools are going to be…

Yeah, we can laugh about their reactions to mediocre (or straight up bad in some cases) meals, but it’s going to be a shitshow across US higher ed in terms of student, faculty, and staff casualties as well as the financial solvency of institutions. A lot of colleges and universities were on shaky financial ground…

Also, I’m just now reading this Gothamist article reporting that students who have food allergies or have to eat kosher/halal are being served meals that they can’t eat. They’re not allowed to leave their rooms, so unless they brought a lot of nonperishable food and water with them (doubtful), they are actually…

I saw the sad sack of underfunded conference-level groceries that one student in a UNC quarantine dorm got and I felt depressed on her behalf. 

Counterpoint: Vegans are being served meals that are marked vegan but contain dairy.

I really appreciate your calling out the mental hospital reference. As the child of someone with significant mental illness I can tell you that stuff stings.

I’m not going to rag on the students like I thought I would—people are and it feels like too much already. Teenagers gonna teenage, and they are paying a lot. NYU is probably paying a lot too, but less than doing it better would cost, to a vendor that’s making essential workers package for something that likely…

The reason that they’re in that predicament is that (the large majority of) students and their parents are demanding to go back to campus. What do they expect? Most campus food is already iffy, and the more workers the university hires to deliver food, the greater the risk of a COVID outbreak. This is what happens…

This is ... not particularly shocking.  Asking the food services area of a university to deliver meals to students in campus housing is sort of like trying to make a chicken fly.  Sure it’s a bird, and sure it can do some approximation of flying, but that’s not really how it’s put together and whatever attempt it…

I had no idea people would be so passionate about algebra homework!

But they did my work for me! 

Right? Did they go around the room the first day and declare dietary preferences?

The question is:Does this story get him laid? Or at least some free drinks?

The C in vitamin C stands for cuck! You stopped because some egghead doctor told you? This is why the frogs are turning Democrat!