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Cost, space issues burden graduate student housing
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
For Ruth Ochs GS, finding a place to live was the last thing she wanted to worry about when she was nine months pregnant. A rising sixth-year music graduate student living in the Lawrence apartment complex, Ochs’ lease was set ...(back to the article)
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I am a fourth year graduate student. One of the worst things about the housing situation is that we end up having to move every or almost every year. It's not so bad moving in and out of the dorm-style GC, but once you're living in the apartments and have lots of furniture, it takes up a huge amount of your time (I would estimate about one week to pack up and move out and one week to settle in again). That's two weeks a year!
I lived in Butler Tract (as we called it then) as a 3d year grad student in the 70s. It was pretty bare-bones compared to the medieval/Renaissance splendor of the Grad College, but it was by far the cheapest housing in Princeton, and you got a good-sized apartment for your money (a 2-bdrm was $140/month back then - but then our stipends were MUCH smaller.) And the walls were not thinner than the ones in Lawrence apartments.