Students feel patronized by an administration oblivious to basic requirements for graduate student living, such as having enough space for study-related books, and a quiet, pr ivate place to live and work. Altogether, the proposed changes, while adding 260 beds, will create 565 less desirable housing situations. Among all off campus residents surveyed, only four percent answered yes to the question of whether they would accept a two bedroom apartment for three people or accept any dorm room with a roommate. That was fine in the first few years of college when I was 18 or 19 years old. I would not have found that situation acceptable even when I entered Stanford three years ago.
Graduate students are just too old for that.
I now think twice about recommending this place to prospective grad students. Additionally, we recommend that Stanford adopt a one bedroom, one person standard for single graduate student housing, which would raise the standard of living for single graduate students to a reasonable level.