She interviewed families of lice-infested students.
In their flannel shirts and roach-infested student housing, they seemed as earnest and poor as I was, and I figured that if they could take out twenty-thousand-dollar-a-year loans, so could I.
For her master's project, Ms. Bhuta took as her leitmotif the daily squalor and smells surrounding her living space in Baroda, scattering incense shaped like dog waste in the college corridors and filling the dirty, insect-infested student toilets with incense-coated clay resembling wasp colonies.
I walked through the unicycle-infested streets, past the students in wigs and up to Arthur's Seat (all jokes to charity, please).
The original main building was razed to its foundation, destroying a black-widow-infested warren of student rooms with names like Love Loft, A Room of One's Mother's Own, and Nunn's Couch.
But just as I was about to whisk her back to my mouse-infested squalor of student accommodation for a night of passion overheard by the eight people I lived with, I decided to play the "good Samaritan" card, giving her a little speech about how I wanted her to be sure.
"We've had a national stereotype about students living in rat-infested houses and eating baked beans, like it's some kind of joke.
So, when Orel Lee Brown, a widowed mother of two, asked him to speak to a group of her students in a drug-infested area of Oakland, Calif., he took the request in stride.
Through 2014/15, construction at rat-infested Campbell House West led many students to complaint they they were unable to live and work in halls they'd paid for, and had not been warned about the works in advance.
Srour visited a dark, termite-infested school that nonetheless held several hundred students sitting on the dirt floor, eager for the opportunity to learn.
Despite the constant descriptions of Irvington as impoverished, drug-infested and crime-ridden, the parents of my students are hard working and caring people who struggle each day to do what's right for their children.
