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At my local university, the school dragged it's feet building the engineering building for students by 6 years. That didn't stop them from taking engineering students like me and then getting them 3 years into a program and really trying to force them into another field. At the end, you could see that it was a worthless piece of paper. Mechanical engineering students graduating without ever building anything. Even with this new building which is half the size of the next building I"ll talk about, mechanical students have what amounts to a single garage bay to build their senior design project. Not sure what they can build though because cutting tools are not allowed. No mills, no lathes, no welders, no plasma cutters, no torches not even a circular saw. They were lucky and got approved last year for a jigsaw and a sawzall. So combine that with a drill and a walmart tool kit. They're pretty much set to build almost nothing unless it's done at their house or off campus.
They magically found the money to build a complex twin tower "student union" building that includes a bar, a pool hall, a room with nothing but xbox's and ps3's with games, a full arcade, movie theater and executive level office space for Student Government, LBGT affiars, etc etc. A full bank, a starbucks, 10 restaurants, a two story book store that has more apparel than your local old navy, etc. To compliment this new "upgrade", they felt the need to build new dorms. Since college students don't need "affordable" housing, they built 3 person 2000 sqft luxury apartments er I mean dorm rooms. The whole complex is ringed with a lazy river and has it's own waterslide. For those of us who don't live on campus, we're now paying $175 a semester for a premium parking pass which means we can park within 4 miles of campus and not take the shuttle and we're being taught by adjuncts getting paid $1600 a semester to teach the class. The one time I had a real tenured professor, he was a complete goon. Spent most of his adult life studying crustaceans in hawaii. Moves to florida because he needs to "get on our manatee problem". In the end, no one knew what he wanted us to know and he had to curve the class grades 15 FINAL points. If I was an idiot and borrowed all the money to live on campus, buy books at the ridiculous book store, and borrowed money for classes, I'd be pissed. Nothing serious is going on and the only thing that has increased while I was there is the tuition, the price of books, and the number of parking tickets they wrote.
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