Is It Me Or Is This Dorm Room Crowded?
Enrollment is up this year, so up in fact that colleges are struggling to keep up. USA Today reports that many state schools are seeing far more freshmen than they anticipated. Now they have to scramble to find enough dorm rooms and classrooms to house and educate them all.
USA Today attributes part of this jump in enrollment to a weak economy. Students and parents facing tough times may decide to choose a more affordable school rather than an expensive private one. As covered in a previous post, this may not be the wisest choice considering the value a college's reputation plays when it comes to landing higher-paying jobs after graduation.
Of course, if students are residents of the state a state school is in, the price is even lower, and Mom and Dad don't have to spend as much gas money to bring care packages on Parents Weekend.
Travel expenses aside, the increased high school graduation rates and bump in enrollment suggest that Americans are taking higher education more seriously than ever. In our research report "Squeeze Play," we've seen a trend like this. Fifty percent of those surveyed said "college is necessary," and 87% percent of those interviewed - the highest percentage ever - said it's better for high school grads to go on to college because in the long run they'll have better prospects.
Soon colleges expect a decrease in numbers. Most of the Echo Boomers have arrived at age 18 and after they've all entered college, we should see a steady decline for about eight more years. One wonders what will happen to college costs when demand decreases.
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First and foremost, the crowd of our dorm room is a danger to our normal order of life. Our dorm room is made up of three parts, one for sleeping, one for washing, and the other for studying. It sounds like we have a big room, but the truth is that there was no place for lots of books, so we bought bookshelves per person, and each bookshelf standed on everyone’s desk. Besides, our internet cables twine on the floor, just like many snakes crawl together. Once, my roommate Tina, who got up early and went to the study room to open the light, suddenly stumbled over the internet cables and ran into the bookshelf. Boom! Unluckily, Tina got hurt. We rushed out on hearing the noise and sent her to hospital at once. After about ten minutes, the doctor told us that her wound was not very serious, and we were relieved. The crowd really made a big trouble. Then, owing to the limited space, our things are placed messively though we all have own bookshelf, so sometimes, we can not find things of our own and take wrong things. I did remember an interesting thing which happened weeks ago. It was Monday. I got up late and prepared the books for my classes hurrily. However, the desk was so massive and everything was out of control. Because of my careless, I took the wrong books to classroom. When I sat down and got ready to study, I found I took the wrong book. So embrassed. Time was too late for me to return to the dorm, so I sat in the classroom without learning for two hours, and from that moment on, I decided to clean up the desk and keep it clean forever.viec lam
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