Parking is another story. Those who live on campus don t have to deal with these two traumatizing dilemmas, yet many students continue to complain about the triple room dorms at San Jose State University. With the high cost of living in the Bay Area, most college students struggle with one financial cost after another.
Housing is merely one example.
According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, the downtown area of San Jose has become a hip place to live. Moreover, Tacci said the majority of what we re seeing is a lot of high-tech employees who are being transferred here from other parts of the country, or even other parts of the world. He s talking about software engineers and executives in the Silicon Valley, not college students. Martin Castillo, the community relations coordinator for housing, said that due to the rising demand of on-campus housing, SJSU began implementing triple rooms two years ago. He said the idea came from sister schools that converted rooms to fit the rising number of students who choose to live on campus.