That’s a lot of articles 
I’m glad I eventually slowed down. I just had a lot to say for a while.
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Bonus: Article mentions Dunning-Kruger!
OK so parents weekend is coming up for my kid at WSU. Pullman runs out of accommodations quickly for event weekends so there have been zero places to book for months. My wife is on some parents’ group on Facebook and apparently many people are STAYING IN THEIR KIDS DORM ROOMS WITH THEM.
That’s just about the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.
I remember some people doing that when I was in college back in the day. But it seemed like it was done for cost savings rather than there being literally no other place to stay.
Really? This is the first I’ve heard of anything of the sort. It honestly blows my mind. Showering in those terrible college bathroom showers? Next to college students? Madness.
I think this I saw a porno with this setup
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Some people are cheap as hell and that is nothing compared to things I’ve heard.
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There was one girl in my dorm who did this. During breaks when people normally left the dorms, her whole family of 4 or 5 would stay with her in her dorm. These were times when the dorms were mostly deserted (e.g. spring break and such) so the weirdness factor was less.
I think in the case I described above it was more a case of being poor than being cheap.
My dad had to do this my freshman year. He was just blind to the reality that Pullman-Moscow truly sells out the big weekends very early even at severely hiked prices. Thankfully my dorm did have individual shower stalls, so there wasn’t a ton of weirdness to that part.
It wasn’t something that repeated itself; he always paid the hotel ransom going forward. Seems like a relatively understandable blind spot if your kid is a freshman.
Not sure how old you are, did Airbnb exist? Those are also sold out, but it adds a little room on top of hotels.
In other Pullman news, it snowed the last couple of nights and it is currently 17 degrees there. My SoCal kid is going from “OMG this is amazing!” to “I have made a terrible mistake” pretty quickly lol.
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Nah no airbnb, this would have been 1998. Truly slim pickings.
He’ll definitely get the full brunt of winter. Even going from western WA to eastern WA like I did made for a pretty big weather downgrade (from mostly very temperate to much bigger swings). He’ll adjust. Glad he’s enjoying it.
You might try one of the little farming towns over on that side of the state and see if you can at least get close to cut the 5 hour drive down to something manageable. I wasn’t in the dorms that long and it was 100 years ago so I don’t remember if there were parents in the dorms, would be a weird shower experience…
Oh yeah, there isn’t anything between the mountains and WSU to stop the wind but a few tall buildings. Fortunately, most of the sidewalks on campus are heated so it doesn’t get too icy, but where crosswalks back in the day where you could just watch people fall over if you wanted to…
We were wise to the ways of Pullman lodging and booked an Airbnb in Moscow forever ago. But if I were stuck in this position I’d just stay in Spokane.
I don’t remember if the drive from Walla Walla was better or worse than Spokane if there was weather. But it’s always fun to tell people you were in Walla Wall Washington…
Meanwhile it’s a high of 78 in Boston today. Crazy ass shit.
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