New York Times Now Holding Up Poor NYU Juniors For Terrible Ridicule, Mockery (By Us)
Why are you doing this, New York Times? Why are you taking what we're sure is a very nice young woman, and forcing us to mock her horribly, and unkindly -- as horribly and unkindly as if she'd put up a terrible Thought Catalog -- when all she wanted was to find a reasonably nice apartment near NYU? NYT, are you actually evil?
We are not even going to name the young dummy in question; she will have enough following her around with the NEW YORK TIMES STORY with HER NAME ON IT that makes her sound LIKE A HUGE ASSHOLE. Suffice it to say she is a 21-year-old junior from San Diego, and she was a mite particular with her living situation. She did not care for her shared NYU dorm (been there!) but in her case, unlike in ours, she and her five dormmates had a six-"bedroom" suite for like $1000 each per month. (Twenty years ago, if you care at all, which why on earth would you, it was about $600 per month each to share three bedrooms and a kitchen with five other women at the Third Avenue North dorm. So, not bad, NYU! You may have gotten even a little less greedy!) Anyway, it was too loud for our heroine, and noise came in from the living room, and she has trouble sleeping, so her parents said, oh darling, of course we will give you $1850 a month to have a place of your own. So far, so not the worst thing we've ever heard in the world. BUT WAIT.
You mean he's now paying rent?
One of my years as Wisconsin, I had a "room" which was actually a sunporch. Admittedly, it was $900 for the entire academic year, but if my girlfriend hadn't been in a real apartment I would probably have frozen to death at some point in the winter.