Subj : Ice and snow
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Jan 07 2020 07:59:46

   Daryl wrote --

>   I think I'm just 2 to 3 miles from the local campus. I lived at home

  My freshman year in Colorado in the early '70s I lived at home attending
a junior college.  My sophomore year was at a commuter community college. 
Neither had dorms.  
  When I went to WVU I lived in a few different places off campus.  I never
lived in a dorm.  Had enough "dorm life" in the Navy sharing everything.

> working at Burger King, paid my way through college. Back then (40
> years ago), tuition was $400 a semester, with $100 for books and a $20
> yearly parking sticker

  The GI Bill at the time paid for tuition but I had to pay for everything
else.  I think tuition was like $250 a semester, and books were equal to
that.  I had worked part time all though college save for my first year when I
lived at home.
  Never had to pay for parking.  The first two were first come-first served
finding a place.  At WVU I walked to class.
  The last couple of semesters I "inherited" the house a friend had (the
one I visited in NYC), which was a block from campus with a drive way!  That
was living large there.

>   Today, dorms are all over the place, and it costs BIG BUCKS...plus,
> the freshman students are REQUIRED to live there.
 
   Same here.
   The university is moving away from two or more per room with a shower
etc down the hall to units.  Each unit has a common room with single bedrooms
radiating around that. And private bathrooms.  Unthought of in my day.
  
> JM>  I rode my bike and people exclaimed "You rode your bike in that?"
> JM>  I replied Well I wasn't about to walk through all the snow and ice. :)
> 
>   Good point. What was their reaction??

  They just hung their heads and sighed.  :)
  Joe

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