What Ms. Falcon has invented is a full-service dorm, full of strangers she has brought together to share big apartments as a way to keep housing costs down.
Colleges are strapped for cash, and master's programs are a low-cost way to get it: they don't require undergraduate services like dorms or the high student-teacher ratio of doctoral programs.
Many travelers these days seem to be swapping Frette sheets and 24-hour room service for shared dorm rooms and 1,000-calorie-a-day 1,000-calorie-a-day 1,000-calorie-a-day
After all, he started the initial DynDNS service in his dorm room at Worcester Polytechnic Institute back in 2001, and he's helped the company launch a broader suite of products for managing website availability, security and speed.
But increasingly, the main service that specialty dorms seem to provide is social -- which some people view as a step in the wrong direction.
At the recommendation of alumni, there is no Internet service in the dorms, only in the academic building, and incoming students are strongly discouraged from bringing DVDs or loading videos on their laptops.
From the time Mark Zuckerberg launched the service in his college dorm room through to today, privacy has been a core part of our offering.
Peabody was running Tripod, a personal Web site service launched in his dorm at Williams College, when the president of the college, hoping to spark economic development in the area, asked a few alumni for ideas.
However, campus housing rules say students can only keep non-predatory fish and service dogs in their dorm rooms.
In 2002, Mr. Scott created a separate company, Student Services Inc., to provide cable, phone and Internet services to Educational Housing's dorm rooms.
For those who dream of college life going on forever, they had it down: living in a dorm, all the services they needed, and an army of potential friends.
