or in any city. College students think they have it so bad, wait until they start living like actual adults with actual adult responsibilities other than showing up to class.
I do not understand why so many people in this comment section do not understand that if you are paying 10x more for something, you expect it to be of higher quality.
@@fakeaccount-bz5rl or supply and demand. Ever take an economics class? Higher quality items for higher prices only exist when you have a saturation of the market.
@@fakeaccount-bz5rl That already is high quality. If miss girl saw the dorms that some of my colleagues slept at, she'd quickly realize how all her dorms are basically mansions in comparison. My friends literally slept in a concrete shoebox with a window and a bed for a dorm in university. No difference to a prison cell.
As a fellow duke graduate, all I can say is thanks to that school. They have perhaps the best financial aid out of any university in the country. Free dorms, free food, free study abroad. ‘Expose’ 🙄
@@marciab7152 no pets. Not sure about tank based fish like creatures. But that rule makes sense - the rooms need to last a long time and pets can do a lot of damage.
Yeah but you are required to live in campus for 3 years. A lot of people who have mental health issues and have had pets to help with that but can’t get an official allowance would go insane.
Kinda, I agree she’s off her rocker and did nothing but expose herself but I disagree abt the financial aid part. True on the surface it would seem they have one of the best just based off the amount of money they hand out but the issue with that is they have probably the worst middle class financial aid in the country. Duke only cares abt u if ur broke but have high test scores so they can show the world they help the little guys, foreign so they can improve their demographics, or rich so ur parents can fund them. If ur anywhere close to middle class u can kiss all aid goodbye bc ur not getting a single cent. Doesn’t matter ur scores, essays, or backstory if ur middle class Duke doesn’t want anything to do with u. Hell 3 of the smartest kids I know got into Duke and turned it down bc all 3 didn’t get a lick of aid bc their households had the audacity to make a livable wage of slightly over $100k a year (all 3 had perfect SATs, top 2 in their classes, had all the extracurriculars, and weren’t white (shouldn’t matter but it sure does to Duke!)). Also institutional financial aid in the first place is a total scam bc they’re the ones who get to set the price of an education initially. College only costs institutions abt $15000 per person per year regardless of where u go that is the actual cost incurred by the university to teach/support u over a year. Anything above that is arbitrary and decided by the university seemingly as they please. Publicly they charge 75k a year so there’s about $60k of headway from every student-money they say u owe them but isn’t actually tied to any real costs. When they then give u financial aid they r just cutting into their potential profits which costs them nothing so long as it stays above that $15k a year threshold. So u feel like u win when u get $50k taken off tuition but ur still paying $10k more than that education actually costs at the end of the day. That is by definition a scam. Lemme put it another way, u go to the store for a soda that costs $2 normally, but this store is very pretentious and popular so they mark the price up 10x to $20 arbitrarily, he then offers u $10 off which u happily except thinking “great that’s half off!” So u buy it for $10 thinking u got a deal when it’s actually still just a $2 soda that u paid $10 for. All that to say financial aid is a blatant scam that our government and most respectable institutions actively participate in and uphold legally all so they can profit even more off of peoples dreams for a better personal future. If u have received FA tho I want to clarify I have nothing against u, u made the best choice u could given the laughably high “cost” of an education nowadays, I just hate the institutions that pretend that so much aid is necessary in the first place based on their own artificial price inflation :/
the stress of not being able to walk outside onto thy balcony, so that I may let downth my long flowing tresses, so that they may begin to globetrot across the sky in the breeze. Where art thou Uber Eats?? where? Come I say.
@mrscovington2747 would you like to co author a book with me. Your creative writing skills are imacualte . "Where art thou uber eats" was litteray genius
Girl those dorms are literal fairy tails compared to all the dorms I have ever seen, this literally looks like an unrealistic movie or TV show with how nice those are 😂
These are the nicest dorms I’ve ever seen lol. I went to ECU and I lived in a musty white concrete wall shoebox about the size of your first dorm WITH a roommate. And I lived in the only all girls dorm on campus so shit got catty real quick. Don’t even get me started on the bathrooms. Shower stalls were so short that anyone over 5’6 could see you while showering next to you. Toilets constantly clogged. Cockroaches and flies everywhere. Luckily we only had to live on campus freshman year. Could not have gotten out fast enough
I went to ECU also. Was an RA my junior and senior year so I had th3 room to myself. But yes, I was totally thinking about our dorms when she was talking about her doors. That first one is pretty standard. I was in Jones my first year, then Scott Hall. Then an RA in Fletcher the last 2 years. You were I'm Greene Hall, right? I know Cotton is also an all girls dorm.
Doesn’t mean you can’t complain about it? I stayed at the uni of Oxford for a couple days and their dorms had a spider problem. Plus a Duke education often results in crazy high student loans as with any private university in the US. It’s really accessible to anyone.
@potato1084 only 30% of duke students take out student loans. The average student debt was $24,000. This is because their parents typically pay for everything. The student body consists of very privileged people.
@@austinwhitman2285 Not completely. Duke has great tuition programs for the children of anyone that works at Duke. Many of those students would not fall under the privilaged category.
@@thakardit's called the golden handcuffs and for 20 years of service. And since lots of those people are medical professionals they are absolutely privileged.
@@austinwhitman2285they are called legacy kids, and take up almost the full 8% acceptance rate that Duke has. Extremely frustrating. The only way to try and get accepted, not being legacy, is to get into one of their club sport programs, along with Duke TIPS, which my child is doing and that's still not a guarantee. It's her dream and we are already pouring thousands of dollars we don't have into programs that may or may not help her get in. They need to do away with legacy kids, like some other schools are starting to do.
@@SJ-ni6iyit's gonna depend on the college your going to. But I don't wanna say it's normal but more or less expected from some schools. But it's not ideal
My freshman year people kept getting trapped in their rooms with bats. . . so many people had to get rabies shots that the local hospital ran out of them. A few of the dorms had communal showers where you had to walk THROUGH other people’s shower to get to the showers in the corner. This was at a private college that costs 70k a year. Those dorms seem like a dream 😅
Hahahaha fr my old room was 8 swuare meters, the current one is maybe 12 square meters? My first room i could touch both walls with myvhands stretched, that was a shoebox. Defenietely smaller than the "shoebox one". Might be small for 2 people living there with all tehir belongings but fo one person it's quite spacious lol
my bedroom isn't even half that size and all my stuff fits perfectly. you go to college, have a nice place to stay AND you complain?? girl, I travel two hours to go to college every day and no one gets to complain about it in my country.
Why is on-campus living required?? Sounds like a scummy way to force students to pay thousands more for services they don't need to a school that'[s already charging them thousands
I feel like it’s also to see if they can conform with other Duke students and a lot of people are not able to do that I would definitely not be able to
It is so they can get more money and artificially keep the costs of the education high. It also helps them to keep the admissions process more selective. Duke and other private universities are named as defendants in an upcoming scotus case. You also need to show proof of income to be accepted by Duke. If you're qualified but your parents won't be able to afford the costs, then the chances of acceptance are extremely low. They will try to give you a scholarship for random things. But only 30% of Duke students have student loans and the average student debt is $24,000. So the parents front the costs. Duke costs around $90k per year. Duke students are the most privileged students in all of NC.
a lot private schools require two/three years but i know a lot of public unviersities only require one unless you sign a second year contract in advance. But my question is what jf you want to live in your sorority house or does Duke not have sorority houses?
@@AudreyNotHepburn I'm a duke student, know a lot about the housing system. Duke doesn't allow for greek life houses, sororities don't own houses, all of the frats are now unaffiliated with duke (a whole different story) they unofficially had houses before that though. Sororities as well as SLGs (selective living groups) have the option to have an affiliated block in the dorms. So, they'll have a section of a specific dorm that are only those in the sorority. However, they have to be able to fill every slot otherwise they lose their section, so to fill slots sometimes they'll have non-sorority people live in that dorm section with them.
I think mandatory dorm living is ridiculous. Where I live the dorms are for out of town students, not local ones. There is much limited space that some universities use old hotels as dorms.
@@Rosiejanedoe The universtiy I attended mandated dorm living your first year - unless you lived within X miles of campus. Their mind-set being that they didn't want you to pay money if you could easily commute, but studies showed dorm living your first year was great for student retention because it got them involved in campus events and encouraged them to use campus resources. To me its not mandating dorm living that's the issue. It's the cost. Give students a scholarship to cover their room and board and I'd be totally fine with it.
@@Rosiejanedoe I'm at the University of Tennessee and we have a mandatory first year in the dorms. Except there's not enough dorms, so for many students, it was a mandatory first year in a hotel room.
There's a ton of foreign students living off campus in smaller facilities. They pay $1700/ month for smaller rooms, but with kitchens and laundry facilities included.
At the University I worked for, many local students came to live in the dorms their freshman year just for those experiences.... After the first week they were barely around, ended up spending like 80% of their nights back home. 😅 75% of dorm life is just AWFUL, but too many people feel pressured to not look like a baby.
i literally have never been happier then when i got a single this year. there is no shame in not being a roommate person. i tried one random and one close friend and both were… awful. i only like to share my space with my partner and my closest friends. and that’s okay.
That's kinda crazy. As the most scholastic person at a very small private school I was courted very heavily by Duke. Solidly considered them but never enough to look into student life and this is SUCH a huge "ew no" from me to require THREE on campus dorm years. Sounds like a nightmare
Awww I'll be 40 this year and I also studied abroad in Prague in college. Loved it so much I worked for the program after graduating. This was before the Euro, circa 2005. Nostalgia. College years were simply the best. Not sure how covid has impacted y'all's experiences, but I hope you all enjoy these years as much as possible.
Ha! Ha! I was on the list before computers were invented. I was born at duke hosp. I live on the corner of Duke St. & Duke Homestead Rd. Die hard UNC Fan Ha! Ha! Truth. What can I say Durham is a shit hole.@@andthentherewas5932
In the late 90s I was in a single dorm room, 9 feet by 9 feet with a small desk and an extended twin bed. Best sleeping I ever did. I tried buying the bed from the residence hall but they wouldn't sell it. My 19-inch TV sat on top of my storage tote right in front of the window. I shared a bathroom with 6 other guys. One shower, one urinal and one toilet. 2 sinks. It was small, not new (built in 1965 and it was 1997-1999 when I was there).
The problem isn't always the room size, the problem is that dorms often don't have kitchens or private bathrooms, or parking, but they charge you even more per month than living in an apartment with a roommate--without giving you any of those things that you would get if you could rent an apartment off campus.
I lived in Central Campus off of Anderson. I wish I could go back to that time and have a redo. I just googled it and saw that the whole Central Campus has been torn down!! I started crying. Don't know why. I have no attachment to the buildings. It just feels like a commentary on my life.
I'm pretty sure that it was because they were super old and unsafe? asbestos and crime, the year before it was demolished there was a pretty brutal SA if i remember correctly and probably wanted to keep a better eye on greek life
As a Brit who’s been at uni for 6 years and 4 of those years spent it living in uni accommodation the idea of having a room mate as a whole adult in university is crazy to me. 😅
In Germany the dorms are old but wayyyy nicer. You get your own big room and of your lucky wifi router. You also get a sink. The bathrooms and kitchens are shared between 15 and 20 students per floor. We had a "House Frau" whos like our landlord but not old took care of repairs but everyweek we could change our sheets for new one at a certain time. Most of the foreign students are house here since its harder to get housing as a foreigner, especially if you dont speak German.
@@edenkammerer6428i know she’s probably exaggerating in the video, but if there’s one in my room every day, we’re gonna have a problem 🤢 I live in Florida and I still only get a big one inside once in a blue moon
@@donid.333 I don't get it. When I had roaches, roach bombs did the trick for me. I don't have any now. What kind of indestructible roaches do you have in Durham?
My parents went to Duke in the 90s/early 2000s, and every time we’re on campus, they make it a point to point out their old dorm buildings. And how little it’s changed.
@@Frantherium did you even listen to the video? She said two people usually sleep in that room which is small for two people, she even said she got lucky and had it all to herself because of covid. I would not call that privileged. I would called that spoiled.
@@Frantherium @Jamess5415, you guys must read the book 'The 48 Laws of Power.' Both of you are simply mad for no reason, and it's sad. If you let people like that control your emotions, they have already won the battle. Instead of slandering someone, find flaws in their characteristics, discover weaknesses from their past or credibility, and use that against them. But never directly slander someone; it makes you appear weak and pathetic.
@@Gsuneowactually that’s an amazing idea thank you and after reading your comment I realize your right it isn’t privilege it’s being spoiled you’ve changed my mind on this have a nice day
I used to be a Paramedic in Durham in the 90’s when Duke was winning loads of basketball championships. We used to do standbys at the dorms and when they’d win, those benches were toast. Very cool times back then. 🤙🤙
I literally had a crusty blue carpet, crappy AC that could either only be cold or hot (we couldn't control the temp ourselves. Around summer for example it would be turned cold), a shower that changes temp on its own, fussy toilets that clogged easily, and brick walls painted white. Dude, that shit is nice af. I had to share a room roughtly that size with another person and (maybe slightly wider and less long) and I had to share a bathroom with 2 other people. A friend of my roomate and I also stayed in our room every night so that is 3 people. Sometimes it was even 4 people. This is rich people problems.
Seems extremely nice as far as dorms go. I've never lived in one, but my friends have and it's basically only enough room to walk between the beds. The childhood bedroom I shared with my sister was more spacious
We had 3 people in your “shoebox” sized dorm when I was in school, and two of us has guitar gear and made it work. Must have been nice to have all that space to yourself.
I never went to college, but I was a janitor for one for a few years. We had to clean the dorms once the students left for summer. All of these rooms in her video are bigger than the standard dorm rooms I’ve cleaned, and all of them are nicer.
why is everyone saying she was complaining soooo much. like she called pretty much all of the rooms very nice and everything and the only negative thing she said was that there were cockroaches which is a genuinely concerning problem 💀💀 and the reason she was shocked about sharing a room that small is probably because SHE ISNT USED TO IT. yall need to realize if you've had your own room all your life and everything suddenly having to move into a room that small with another person is gonna be shocking.
Hahaha, this girl has NO IDEA. Those dorms are honestly a step above and even with a bug problem, these a great. Also the small dorm size for her freshman year is pretty normal.
These dorms are great. I lived in the suites my sophomore and junior years at the state university I attend. It is one of the nicer dorms on that campus, but my parents were alumni and they were living in the same dorm and said that it hadn’t changed a bit. My entire freshman year was online so I didn’t live on campus however one of the most common freshman dorms is infamous for how miserable it could be. Even when my parents went to school there those dorms had a bad reputation and theirs no AC so in the beginning of the school year it was so hot in the rooms people literally would sleep in the common areas to not die.
Those dorms look nice, and a good size too. My first year in college they were so short on dorm space they were cramming 6 of us in spaces meant for 4. And I was lucky to get that, because they were also putting students in a crappy hotel off campus.
I legit gasped at how nice every single one of these dorms are. Most of the dorms don’t even have AC at the university I went to. I could go on about the issues many of the dorms had and how many people they tried to cram into each dorm, but hey, it was a place to sleep and it was pretty fun for the most part. At least we weren’t forced to live on campus past the first year.
That freshman dorm was way bigger than the one I lived in with a roomate. I was fine. Freshman dorms especially get you to go out in the common spaces and get to know people.
my sister’s room in the uni halls fit one single (or maybe twin) bed, one small desk, a small wardrobe and a sink/cabinet combo. the remaining floor space was about 3m by .75m, or the size of a school desk. this is luxury compared to that, luckily she only lived in it for one year before moving into a house with 5 of her mates.
Privilege at its finest. I remember the people at my school complaining about the cafeteria, I felt lucky to have food at my dispense. Especially food that didn’t look frozen.
The Duke dorms look HUGE and super nice compared to where I'm living atm. My SUITE that cost extra is a 2 person room with cement brick walls without its own bathroom, and for laundry we have to walk down the street to the student services building because they don't have a washing machine in the building at all.
I like how she’s talking about her first storm being the size of a shoebox when my first storm was also a two person dorm and it was half of that size. I also literally lived in a dorm once where my roommates bed in my bed, we’re on the same wall. Our desks were on the opposite wall, and there was enough room between our beds in our desks for a person to literally walk like you could have a runner rug and that was the amount of space that you had in the whole room.
I’m gonna continue my thread here in the comments because I don’t want it to be like super long but we need to sit back and acknowledge some thing right now going to college is a privilege. It is a privilege that not as many people as one might think are able to do in fact, I made poor decisions, and now I cannot continue my education because my student loan debt is too high For me to be able to do that so we need to sit back. Check our privilege understand that this isn’t something that everyone gets to do and be happy with it. At the end of the day you choose to go to the school that you go to you have to go to do you don’t have to go to Harvard or Yale or any of these other big-name bigwig universities, but you choose to. I didn’t have to go to liberal arts school. I chose to do that. It was the wrong choice at the time but I chose to do that and so yeah I did 4 1/2 years to get a bachelors and yeah I wanted to go back to school for another 2 1/2 years to get a second bachelors and guess what I can’t, but you know what that’s a life and we make the best of our choices And maybe we stop sitting here and shitting on the schools on the Internet. Do you wanna complain about the living situation and complain about the cost of living complain about how much they fucking charge you to live in the storms come clean about the dorm themselves the dorms are fine I’ve seen some way shittier dorms.
Lets "expose" the dorm system. Shit looks nice, my god.
Duke is fucking expensive, of course they're great
Lmfaoo stg. These dorms shit on NC states 😂
@@mattepstein1299 yeah our dorms suck ass
Every school is **** expensive@@aceystar1478
I lived in Metcalf and was just shocked to see that there wasn’t 2 inchs of standing water on the ground
if that’s a shoebox to you, you’d die if you saw dorms at public universities 💀
That “shoebox” is luxury at expensive Dutch uni’s
or in any city.
College students think they have it so bad, wait until they start living like actual adults with actual adult responsibilities other than showing up to class.
I do not understand why so many people in this comment section do not understand that if you are paying 10x more for something, you expect it to be of higher quality.
@@fakeaccount-bz5rl or supply and demand. Ever take an economics class?
Higher quality items for higher prices only exist when you have a saturation of the market.
@@fakeaccount-bz5rl That already is high quality. If miss girl saw the dorms that some of my colleagues slept at, she'd quickly realize how all her dorms are basically mansions in comparison.
My friends literally slept in a concrete shoebox with a window and a bed for a dorm in university. No difference to a prison cell.
As a fellow duke graduate, all I can say is thanks to that school. They have perhaps the best financial aid out of any university in the country. Free dorms, free food, free study abroad. ‘Expose’ 🙄
I’m curious, we’re you allowed to have pets?
@@marciab7152 no pets. Not sure about tank based fish like creatures. But that rule makes sense - the rooms need to last a long time and pets can do a lot of damage.
@@marciab7152 since when does any university allow non necessary pets on dorms in campus
Yeah but you are required to live in campus for 3 years. A lot of people who have mental health issues and have had pets to help with that but can’t get an official allowance would go insane.
Kinda, I agree she’s off her rocker and did nothing but expose herself but I disagree abt the financial aid part. True on the surface it would seem they have one of the best just based off the amount of money they hand out but the issue with that is they have probably the worst middle class financial aid in the country. Duke only cares abt u if ur broke but have high test scores so they can show the world they help the little guys, foreign so they can improve their demographics, or rich so ur parents can fund them. If ur anywhere close to middle class u can kiss all aid goodbye bc ur not getting a single cent. Doesn’t matter ur scores, essays, or backstory if ur middle class Duke doesn’t want anything to do with u. Hell 3 of the smartest kids I know got into Duke and turned it down bc all 3 didn’t get a lick of aid bc their households had the audacity to make a livable wage of slightly over $100k a year (all 3 had perfect SATs, top 2 in their classes, had all the extracurriculars, and weren’t white (shouldn’t matter but it sure does to Duke!)). Also institutional financial aid in the first place is a total scam bc they’re the ones who get to set the price of an education initially. College only costs institutions abt $15000 per person per year regardless of where u go that is the actual cost incurred by the university to teach/support u over a year. Anything above that is arbitrary and decided by the university seemingly as they please. Publicly they charge 75k a year so there’s about $60k of headway from every student-money they say u owe them but isn’t actually tied to any real costs. When they then give u financial aid they r just cutting into their potential profits which costs them nothing so long as it stays above that $15k a year threshold. So u feel like u win when u get $50k taken off tuition but ur still paying $10k more than that education actually costs at the end of the day. That is by definition a scam. Lemme put it another way, u go to the store for a soda that costs $2 normally, but this store is very pretentious and popular so they mark the price up 10x to $20 arbitrarily, he then offers u $10 off which u happily except thinking “great that’s half off!” So u buy it for $10 thinking u got a deal when it’s actually still just a $2 soda that u paid $10 for. All that to say financial aid is a blatant scam that our government and most respectable institutions actively participate in and uphold legally all so they can profit even more off of peoples dreams for a better personal future. If u have received FA tho I want to clarify I have nothing against u, u made the best choice u could given the laughably high “cost” of an education nowadays, I just hate the institutions that pretend that so much aid is necessary in the first place based on their own artificial price inflation :/
That “shoe box” was bigger than my first apartment 😭
Omg life is so harddddd. Duke is like litterally making us live in dorms the size of studio appartments in the cityyyy.. like girl i canttttt...
the stress of not being able to walk outside onto thy balcony, so that I may let downth my long flowing tresses, so that they may begin to globetrot across the sky in the breeze. Where art thou Uber Eats?? where? Come I say.
@mrscovington2747 would you like to co author a book with me. Your creative writing skills are imacualte . "Where art thou uber eats" was litteray genius
I’ll be the first to buy the book
@@a-t5380 what is your book about?
@mrscovington2747 it was more of a joke referring to your creative writing skills.. but probably crime fiction... call it Valley Girls of Duke campus
Girl those dorms are literal fairy tails compared to all the dorms I have ever seen, this literally looks like an unrealistic movie or TV show with how nice those are 😂
as a duke student she was pretty lucky I've seen much smaller rooms
I mean she decorated it really really well
@@potato1084not only that. the windows, the size, absolutely bigger and fancier than most dorms.
I went to a smaller university in the Midwest and my dorm was nasty. Only had to do one year and moved out fast
I agree.
I do hope you're appreciative of what you have received in life. These dorms are fantastic.
These are the nicest dorms I’ve ever seen lol. I went to ECU and I lived in a musty white concrete wall shoebox about the size of your first dorm WITH a roommate. And I lived in the only all girls dorm on campus so shit got catty real quick. Don’t even get me started on the bathrooms. Shower stalls were so short that anyone over 5’6 could see you while showering next to you. Toilets constantly clogged. Cockroaches and flies everywhere. Luckily we only had to live on campus freshman year. Could not have gotten out fast enough
I went to ECU also. Was an RA my junior and senior year so I had th3 room to myself.
But yes, I was totally thinking about our dorms when she was talking about her doors. That first one is pretty standard. I was in Jones my first year, then Scott Hall. Then an RA in Fletcher the last 2 years.
You were I'm Greene Hall, right? I know Cotton is also an all girls dorm.
Good to know, I was getting ready to book a tour there soon
Sounds like wealthy people problems. 🤷♂️
As a poor person it doesn’t imo. Roaches suck.
@@potato1084i think they mean about how “small” the dorm was
Sounds like being at Duke problem.
That part because all the rooms were big
Wait but what if you can’t afford to live in a dorm and want to commute? Why is it required
You lived in a dorm. Just like every other dorm, perhaps nicer than most. Just be happy you get to have a Duke education.
Doesn’t mean you can’t complain about it? I stayed at the uni of Oxford for a couple days and their dorms had a spider problem. Plus a Duke education often results in crazy high student loans as with any private university in the US. It’s really accessible to anyone.
@potato1084 only 30% of duke students take out student loans. The average student debt was $24,000. This is because their parents typically pay for everything. The student body consists of very privileged people.
@@austinwhitman2285 Not completely. Duke has great tuition programs for the children of anyone that works at Duke. Many of those students would not fall under the privilaged category.
@@thakardit's called the golden handcuffs and for 20 years of service. And since lots of those people are medical professionals they are absolutely privileged.
@@austinwhitman2285they are called legacy kids, and take up almost the full 8% acceptance rate that Duke has. Extremely frustrating. The only way to try and get accepted, not being legacy, is to get into one of their club sport programs, along with Duke TIPS, which my child is doing and that's still not a guarantee. It's her dream and we are already pouring thousands of dollars we don't have into programs that may or may not help her get in. They need to do away with legacy kids, like some other schools are starting to do.
this is the most standard dorm set up i’ve ever seen
Your dorms are actually so nice… it’s complaining to complain lol
Why do you say “expose”? These are great accommodations. You are there for education, right? Not clout?
I agree with that except for the 🪳. Is that normal for dorms? I went to a community college while I lived at home.
I’d rather not live in a cockroach infested dorm
@@SJ-ni6iyit's gonna depend on the college your going to. But I don't wanna say it's normal but more or less expected from some schools. But it's not ideal
Expose because it's a predatory system forcing students to pay more than they need to.
She's exposing that they make u live in dorms for 3 years too... that's ridiculous
That "shoe box" is bigger than my living room. Don't be obnoxious
That’s your problem isn’t it? I say this as a low income earner from low income parents. Get over yourself. 😂 You sound bitter as hell.
lmao
Do you spend most of your time in your living room? Do you split your living room with someone else 100% of the time?
@@littleleakyleakythere yes
@@littleleakyleakythereits literally bigger than my bedroom and I share it with my sister 😭
That’s very privileged of you! 😊
My freshman year people kept getting trapped in their rooms with bats. . . so many people had to get rabies shots that the local hospital ran out of them. A few of the dorms had communal showers where you had to walk THROUGH other people’s shower to get to the showers in the corner. This was at a private college that costs 70k a year. Those dorms seem like a dream 😅
That’s like 100 times better than my dorms. You have it good.
If you went to British Unis you’d think again about saying that the first room was the size of a shoe box 💀
her “shoe box” is 4x bigger than my room with noticeably nicer furnishing
Hahahaha fr my old room was 8 swuare meters, the current one is maybe 12 square meters? My first room i could touch both walls with myvhands stretched, that was a shoebox. Defenietely smaller than the "shoebox one". Might be small for 2 people living there with all tehir belongings but fo one person it's quite spacious lol
Ikr I thought those rooms were huge when she showed them
no, when people pay more for something, they expect it to be of higher quality.
@@fakeaccount-bz5rl dude do you think student dorms or student flats in the UK are cheap? The housing prices in the UK are riddicculsly high
my bedroom isn't even half that size and all my stuff fits perfectly. you go to college, have a nice place to stay AND you complain?? girl, I travel two hours to go to college every day and no one gets to complain about it in my country.
Girl… my dorm was smaller had a sewage leak and a black mold problem 😭 I wish I lived in any of those
Why is on-campus living required?? Sounds like a scummy way to force students to pay thousands more for services they don't need to a school that'[s already charging them thousands
I feel like it’s also to see if they can conform with other Duke students and a lot of people are not able to do that I would definitely not be able to
It is so they can get more money and artificially keep the costs of the education high. It also helps them to keep the admissions process more selective. Duke and other private universities are named as defendants in an upcoming scotus case.
You also need to show proof of income to be accepted by Duke. If you're qualified but your parents won't be able to afford the costs, then the chances of acceptance are extremely low. They will try to give you a scholarship for random things. But only 30% of Duke students have student loans and the average student debt is $24,000. So the parents front the costs. Duke costs around $90k per year. Duke students are the most privileged students in all of NC.
That’s why it’s Tar Heel all day lol.
a lot private schools require two/three years but i know a lot of public unviersities only require one unless you sign a second year contract in advance. But my question is what jf you want to live in your sorority house or does Duke not have sorority houses?
@@AudreyNotHepburn I'm a duke student, know a lot about the housing system. Duke doesn't allow for greek life houses, sororities don't own houses, all of the frats are now unaffiliated with duke (a whole different story) they unofficially had houses before that though. Sororities as well as SLGs (selective living groups) have the option to have an affiliated block in the dorms. So, they'll have a section of a specific dorm that are only those in the sorority. However, they have to be able to fill every slot otherwise they lose their section, so to fill slots sometimes they'll have non-sorority people live in that dorm section with them.
3 years of mandatory dorm living is fuckin ridiculous, what’s wrong with duke, haven’t they jacked enough student money?
I think mandatory dorm living is ridiculous. Where I live the dorms are for out of town students, not local ones. There is much limited space that some universities use old hotels as dorms.
@@Rosiejanedoe The universtiy I attended mandated dorm living your first year - unless you lived within X miles of campus. Their mind-set being that they didn't want you to pay money if you could easily commute, but studies showed dorm living your first year was great for student retention because it got them involved in campus events and encouraged them to use campus resources.
To me its not mandating dorm living that's the issue. It's the cost. Give students a scholarship to cover their room and board and I'd be totally fine with it.
@@Rosiejanedoe I'm at the University of Tennessee and we have a mandatory first year in the dorms. Except there's not enough dorms, so for many students, it was a mandatory first year in a hotel room.
Girl, those are GOOD dorms. The size is so much more bigger than other uni’s.
Your dorms are nicer than literally every other school in the state.
UNCW is better.
@@Amanda-Jackson They must have seriously upgraded them since the last time I was there. Granted that was 20 years ago.
There's a ton of foreign students living off campus in smaller facilities. They pay $1700/ month for smaller rooms, but with kitchens and laundry facilities included.
I feel some some quality experiences were missed by not having the roommate while living in the "shoebox".
At the University I worked for, many local students came to live in the dorms their freshman year just for those experiences....
After the first week they were barely around, ended up spending like 80% of their nights back home. 😅
75% of dorm life is just AWFUL, but too many people feel pressured to not look like a baby.
i literally have never been happier then when i got a single this year. there is no shame in not being a roommate person. i tried one random and one close friend and both were… awful. i only like to share my space with my partner and my closest friends. and that’s okay.
That's kinda crazy. As the most scholastic person at a very small private school I was courted very heavily by Duke. Solidly considered them but never enough to look into student life and this is SUCH a huge "ew no" from me to require THREE on campus dorm years. Sounds like a nightmare
Awww I'll be 40 this year and I also studied abroad in Prague in college. Loved it so much I worked for the program after graduating. This was before the Euro, circa 2005. Nostalgia. College years were simply the best. Not sure how covid has impacted y'all's experiences, but I hope you all enjoy these years as much as possible.
Hate to tell you but duke is on top of the roach capital. Them roaches chase you! They have no fear!
Amem! If u step on 1, they will look at u funny
@@kennethkirby2533 they put you on their list! 🤣🤣
Ha! Ha! I was on the list before computers were invented. I was born at duke hosp. I live on the corner of Duke St. & Duke Homestead Rd. Die hard UNC Fan Ha! Ha! Truth. What can I say Durham is a shit hole.@@andthentherewas5932
Those roaches just want you all to experience life a little
Those look like a mansions compared to what I stayed in. Plus some of us had mold and leaky steam pipes in our rooms. You are actually really blessed
yeah. that single dorm that you would’ve dreaded w a roommate is my room now at my university and is one of the biggest. thanks.
Meanwhile, in my freshman dorm room, my roommate and I couldn’t push back from our desks from the same time or our chairs would hit. 😂
Our dorms at my college looked so sketchy during the tour my mom was like “you can still get out of this right?”
In the late 90s I was in a single dorm room, 9 feet by 9 feet with a small desk and an extended twin bed.
Best sleeping I ever did. I tried buying the bed from the residence hall but they wouldn't sell it.
My 19-inch TV sat on top of my storage tote right in front of the window.
I shared a bathroom with 6 other guys. One shower, one urinal and one toilet. 2 sinks. It was small, not new (built in 1965 and it was 1997-1999 when I was there).
I been happy just to go college and get a room.
The problem isn't always the room size, the problem is that dorms often don't have kitchens or private bathrooms, or parking, but they charge you even more per month than living in an apartment with a roommate--without giving you any of those things that you would get if you could rent an apartment off campus.
I lived in Central Campus off of Anderson. I wish I could go back to that time and have a redo. I just googled it and saw that the whole Central Campus has been torn down!! I started crying. Don't know why. I have no attachment to the buildings. It just feels like a commentary on my life.
I'm pretty sure that it was because they were super old and unsafe? asbestos and crime, the year before it was demolished there was a pretty brutal SA if i remember correctly and probably wanted to keep a better eye on greek life
As a Brit who’s been at uni for 6 years and 4 of those years spent it living in uni accommodation the idea of having a room mate as a whole adult in university is crazy to me. 😅
“It wasn’t the nicest dorm” bro that looks nicer than most apartments in my area 💀
No way I just came across a Duke CZcams short 😂😂
In Germany the dorms are old but wayyyy nicer. You get your own big room and of your lucky wifi router. You also get a sink. The bathrooms and kitchens are shared between 15 and 20 students per floor. We had a "House Frau" whos like our landlord but not old took care of repairs but everyweek we could change our sheets for new one at a certain time. Most of the foreign students are house here since its harder to get housing as a foreigner, especially if you dont speak German.
I even had my own bathroom in my German dorm. Shared kitchen with 24 though
Nah man that tuition is too expensive for roaches 🪳 unacceptable
Roaches live even in the cleanest homes.
@@edenkammerer6428i know she’s probably exaggerating in the video, but if there’s one in my room every day, we’re gonna have a problem 🤢 I live in Florida and I still only get a big one inside once in a blue moon
These are the nicest forms I’ve ever seen you just wanted to show off
all of these dorms are literally stunning 😭 bro
always funny when ppl not from durham complain about the wood roaches lmao
The fact that colleges in the US will make you share a bedroom with a complete stranger is so wild.
These are way nicer than my freshman dorm. I guess we were lucky that we could have apartments after freshman year, but these really aren't bad.
In his freshmen year, my brother lived in a “shoebox size” dorm, just with two roommates. It’s not that bad.
i didn’t go to duke but i’ve been in so many of these dorms… memory lane
There are roaches all over the Triangle. You are going to have them, especially if you live in the first floor.
I like that even hearing about Duke University dorms makes me appreciate the WPI dorms
Vids like this make me wish yt shorts had a laugh react option
not surprising abt the roaches lol, they’re insane in some parts of durham
You ain’t lying! I have orkin on speed dial…
😳
So no stores in Durham sell roach traps or roach bombs or any other kind of poisons for insects?
@@ladydi1079 sure they do, doesn’t mean the roaches are any less rampant in this area though
@@donid.333 I don't get it. When I had roaches, roach bombs did the trick for me. I don't have any now. What kind of indestructible roaches do you have in Durham?
Most reasonable duke student. GO HEELS
Typically spoiled Duke students.
that literally looks amazing wym💀
PART 2 IM MIGHT NOT SEE THIS AGAINNNN
PART 2 PLEASE IM BEGGING 🙏
Can we just collectively agree that there is no reason to be required to live on campus other than to be forced to give the schools more money?
My parents went to Duke in the 90s/early 2000s, and every time we’re on campus, they make it a point to point out their old dorm buildings. And how little it’s changed.
What did you use to hang up the hanging light in your second dorm?
Command strips!
Privileged much?!
How’s that privileged?
@@Frantherium did you even listen to the video? She said two people usually sleep in that room which is small for two people, she even said she got lucky and had it all to herself because of covid. I would not call that privileged. I would called that spoiled.
@@Frantherium @Jamess5415, you guys must read the book 'The 48 Laws of Power.' Both of you are simply mad for no reason, and it's sad. If you let people like that control your emotions, they have already won the battle. Instead of slandering someone, find flaws in their characteristics, discover weaknesses from their past or credibility, and use that against them. But never directly slander someone; it makes you appear weak and pathetic.
@@Gsuneowactually that’s an amazing idea thank you and after reading your comment I realize your right it isn’t privilege it’s being spoiled you’ve changed my mind on this have a nice day
I used to be a Paramedic in Durham in the 90’s when Duke was winning loads of basketball championships. We used to do standbys at the dorms and when they’d win, those benches were toast. Very cool times back then. 🤙🤙
Those dorms are actually pretty good
Bruh, these are nicer than my actual rooms at home.
I literally had a crusty blue carpet, crappy AC that could either only be cold or hot (we couldn't control the temp ourselves. Around summer for example it would be turned cold), a shower that changes temp on its own, fussy toilets that clogged easily, and brick walls painted white.
Dude, that shit is nice af. I had to share a room roughtly that size with another person and (maybe slightly wider and less long) and I had to share a bathroom with 2 other people. A friend of my roomate and I also stayed in our room every night so that is 3 people. Sometimes it was even 4 people. This is rich people problems.
These dorms look pretty nice!
10x nicer than any dorm I had lol
Seems extremely nice as far as dorms go. I've never lived in one, but my friends have and it's basically only enough room to walk between the beds. The childhood bedroom I shared with my sister was more spacious
We had 3 people in your “shoebox” sized dorm when I was in school, and two of us has guitar gear and made it work. Must have been nice to have all that space to yourself.
the second dorm is fuckin gorgeous the heck
You can tell the lady has always had it good!
Those are way nicer than any dorm I have seen
I never went to college, but I was a janitor for one for a few years. We had to clean the dorms once the students left for summer. All of these rooms in her video are bigger than the standard dorm rooms I’ve cleaned, and all of them are nicer.
"it's the size of a shoebox" *shows one of the biggest uni accommodation rooms I've ever seen*
why is everyone saying she was complaining soooo much. like she called pretty much all of the rooms very nice and everything and the only negative thing she said was that there were cockroaches which is a genuinely concerning problem 💀💀 and the reason she was shocked about sharing a room that small is probably because SHE ISNT USED TO IT. yall need to realize if you've had your own room all your life and everything suddenly having to move into a room that small with another person is gonna be shocking.
These kinds of people are so funny and sheltered AF
Yeah, those dorms are way nicer and bigger than any of my dorms in college.
Wow, so much better then the dorms I’ve lived in
My college was an old hotel. There were three girls to one room. Your dorms look like a dream
Hahaha, this girl has NO IDEA. Those dorms are honestly a step above and even with a bug problem, these a great. Also the small dorm size for her freshman year is pretty normal.
You just made me feel so lucky to be living in sheridan residence.
These dorms are great. I lived in the suites my sophomore and junior years at the state university I attend. It is one of the nicer dorms on that campus, but my parents were alumni and they were living in the same dorm and said that it hadn’t changed a bit. My entire freshman year was online so I didn’t live on campus however one of the most common freshman dorms is infamous for how miserable it could be. Even when my parents went to school there those dorms had a bad reputation and theirs no AC so in the beginning of the school year it was so hot in the rooms people literally would sleep in the common areas to not die.
id love to see her reaction to romanian college dorms 💀
Those dorms look nice, and a good size too. My first year in college they were so short on dorm space they were cramming 6 of us in spaces meant for 4. And I was lucky to get that, because they were also putting students in a crappy hotel off campus.
I legit gasped at how nice every single one of these dorms are. Most of the dorms don’t even have AC at the university I went to. I could go on about the issues many of the dorms had and how many people they tried to cram into each dorm, but hey, it was a place to sleep and it was pretty fun for the most part. At least we weren’t forced to live on campus past the first year.
The fact that Duke is in the middle of the hood but Ivy league
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I was at unc back in the day… trust me, y’all had it better when it comes to dorm size.
That freshman dorm was way bigger than the one I lived in with a roomate. I was fine. Freshman dorms especially get you to go out in the common spaces and get to know people.
These were all your most average dorm, first one looked luxurious to me. All of them looked fine. You’re lucky to have A/C and heating.
my sister’s room in the uni halls fit one single (or maybe twin) bed, one small desk, a small wardrobe and a sink/cabinet combo. the remaining floor space was about 3m by .75m, or the size of a school desk. this is luxury compared to that, luckily she only lived in it for one year before moving into a house with 5 of her mates.
Privilege at its finest. I remember the people at my school complaining about the cafeteria, I felt lucky to have food at my dispense. Especially food that didn’t look frozen.
Is anyone gonna talk about how pretty her eyes are
The “shoebox” still looks better than my childhood bedroom and the single dorm I had in jr year of college. I’m jelly….😂
These are the... Nicest dorms I've ever seen
Now I’m a Tar Heel Fan for life I ain’t no duke fan but I watch you 😅
The Duke dorms look HUGE and super nice compared to where I'm living atm. My SUITE that cost extra is a 2 person room with cement brick walls without its own bathroom, and for laundry we have to walk down the street to the student services building because they don't have a washing machine in the building at all.
Nicest and biggest shoebox I’ve ever seen for a dorm
I like how she’s talking about her first storm being the size of a shoebox when my first storm was also a two person dorm and it was half of that size. I also literally lived in a dorm once where my roommates bed in my bed, we’re on the same wall. Our desks were on the opposite wall, and there was enough room between our beds in our desks for a person to literally walk like you could have a runner rug and that was the amount of space that you had in the whole room.
I’m gonna continue my thread here in the comments because I don’t want it to be like super long but we need to sit back and acknowledge some thing right now going to college is a privilege. It is a privilege that not as many people as one might think are able to do in fact, I made poor decisions, and now I cannot continue my education because my student loan debt is too high For me to be able to do that so we need to sit back. Check our privilege understand that this isn’t something that everyone gets to do and be happy with it. At the end of the day you choose to go to the school that you go to you have to go to do you don’t have to go to Harvard or Yale or any of these other big-name bigwig universities, but you choose to. I didn’t have to go to liberal arts school. I chose to do that. It was the wrong choice at the time but I chose to do that and so yeah I did 4 1/2 years to get a bachelors and yeah I wanted to go back to school for another 2 1/2 years to get a second bachelors and guess what I can’t, but you know what that’s a life and we make the best of our choices And maybe we stop sitting here and shitting on the schools on the Internet. Do you wanna complain about the living situation and complain about the cost of living complain about how much they fucking charge you to live in the storms come clean about the dorm themselves the dorms are fine I’ve seen some way shittier dorms.
Duke and then NYU, Prague. This child has zero problems. Lord, I hope she grows up and does something good.
Looks nicer than what I have now. Bigger too.