But they can't make you live and eat on campus, can they? I rarely frequented the cantinas of our university. They were cheap but not much cheaper than cooking your own meals and the food there was not exactly gourmet quality.
IMHO it is an important aspect of off-campus living that one gets exposed to a larger spread of people and not just academic types.
Nope -- you always had the option to rent an apartment or room in a house... albeit generally (for the sake of obtaining an affordable rent) with roommates and their associated challenges.
Between the late '90s and early '00s the dorms became quite popular in that they wired them all up for Ethernet whereas, living on your own, DSL/cable modems/etc. weren't yet generally available!
The University of Wisconsin had a couple of "nice" cafeterias that were open just a few hours around breakfast, lunch, and dinner (one was named after an African-American chef who'd worked there for something like 40 years, and while he was pretty old by the time I was in school, still made an occasional "guest" appearance to cook up some of his old favorites)... and then a large handful of cafeterias that had greatly extended hours (there were even a couple that were open something like 6AM-11PM) but lower quality food (and there were certain staples that were available every day of the year).
Ha, yeah, that's certainly a good point!
---Joel
Same in my case. I shared a two-room apartment with a ME student and we are still good friends.
Yabbut: I had a 16ft yagi antenna for 2m and numerous wire antennas for shortwave. 100 watts out of a Heathkit HW100. Since I was on the highest peak there is in the Netherlands I could enjoy 2m chats way out to North Sea vessels using 3W SSB. That is next to impossible in a dorm :-)
And the pubs, the pubs!
Things like that used to be commonplace. Don't know how well it would work at 120V. At 220V, water immediately starts boiling between the blades, so the bubbles of vapor naturally limit the current.
Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
Things like that used to be commonplace. Don't know how well it would work at 120V. At 220V, water immediately starts boiling between the blades, so the bubbles of vapor naturally limit the current.
Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
Things like that used to be commonplace. Don't know how well it works at
120V. At 220V, water immediately starts boiling between the blades, so the vapor bubbles naturally limit the current.Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
On a sunny day (Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:42:46 -0600) it happened Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote in :
I made hot sausages by putting one between 2 nails on the 220V AC:-)
Fascinating... cheaper than any store-bought unit, I suppose!
I had one for hot dogs... probably be illegal now ;-) ...Jim Thompson
Oh, that (didn't remember "blue boxes"). Actually I thought you were talking about the Display Writer (AKA Delay Writer). That was an 8086 box that came out about the same time as the PC. DW came out for the PC somewhat later (the DW hardware was ridiculously expensive).
My first PC was the original, in 1982. I bought an 80286 in '89, or so, and a cheap clone Pentium in '94.
I would have thought PCs would have been more prevalent by then. They were already rapidly coming down the price curve.
I doubt 10% of my class owned a soldering iron. I doubt 10% know which end to pick up today.
Sure, electric vapourizers used to work that way.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
I never lived on campus either. The first year I lived at home and off-campus in a mobile home, after. The washer and dryer were across town at the in-laws. We didn't have a microwave, either. ;-)
The parties were in one of the campus pubs and few were scheduled. ;-)
My mother didn't have a dryer until after I moved out. She decided that sixty was too old to be hanging clothes to dry.
By hand? You mean by beating it on a rock?
Yes, and I even have one that works like that, however you have to add some baking soda into water.
VLV
Certainly can. A few weeks ago, one of the news reports here was that Auburn was going to force every student to buy a meal plan, whether they wanted it or not. Even those living off-campus.
Apparently they're going to make that impossible, too. UVM required Freshmen to live on-campus, even if they couldn't afford dorms and could live at home. Alabama universities (Both 'bama and Auburn) are also going that way, except not just for Freshmen.
Thirty-five years ago UIUC required Freshmen to live on campus, unless they could live at home.
Not sure when you graduated but in my days (early 80's) nearly everyone would solder until you had clouds in the room. Most of them were assembling Apple II clones and such. One of my side jobs at the university was to come up with low cost tools they can build. Poor man's spectrum analyzer, function generators and so on. The plans were free and if there were unavoidable difficult-to-buy parts we'd organize pool orders and stuff.
Very sad. And nobody does anything against that? I find it almost discriminatory. I am not a fan of legal action but if those universities receive even one dime in public funding I hope someone manages to get a class together and challenge them.
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