Perhaps sharing a dorm with a future executive tells you something about his or her character.This is only the latest in a series of market anomalies that have been discovered over the years.
Maybe it was sharing a dorm with a bunch of kids from the Midwest and South who, and I quote, "never met a real Jew before!" Maybe for the first time the "otherness" I felt growing up with mostly Catholic schoolmates and cousins finally gave way to an "otherness" that I wanted to celebrate and distinguish.
"Anyone who has ever shared a dorm room with another person probably has a point of view on this," he said.
"You've never lived until you've shared a dorm bathroom with 10 guys," Ms. Hathaway said over a cup of coffee in a Midtown diner.
I've endured nearly the full spectrum of roommate living: I've shared a dorm, lived in a two-bedroom with four other girls, blissfully suffered in an always-filthy "party house," briefly cohabitated an apartment with the girlfriend of the man I lost my virginity to, and, most recently, lived with a couple.
My mother would have gone crazy with worry if I'd had to share a dorm room with three other girls — three "drunken sluts," in her words.
"Some of these students were C.E.O.'s of these companies, and now they're back on campus" sharing a dorm room with a roommate.
Peter Culman, class of '59, had not been on the Williams College campus for a reunion in all the 45 years since he graduated, but he was drawn back here recently by an offer he could not refuse: the chance to share a dorm room with his son, Sean, class of '89.
He goes to college, where he shares a dorm room with Puck who isn't actually attending the school.
There was Gu An, a 19-year-old economics student who shares a dorm room at Shanghai University with his high school sweetheart, and Wang Liang, a 27-year-old furniture designer who might have been the only person to bring his mother.
