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Article: Dorm or apartment? Hand me my pen.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 6, 2006
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Byline: Donna Fisher
At the end of her freshman year in college, having earned a less-than-stellar GPA, our daughter, Amanda, informed us that living in a dorm was too distracting. Her solution to the dorm problem: an apartment. She had already found the perfect one, a loft in an upscale building about 10 minutes from campus.
Along with her mediocre grades, she had acquired a taste for partying and what her parents felt was a mediocre boyfriend. I suspected her grades had been a product of the "information osmosis" study method: sleeping from 3 a.m. until noon with books and notes under the pillow.
Predicting disaster, I voted against the ...