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Originally posted by Lasereth
Moving off-campus isn't the best solution for all students. My parents aren't paying for a penny of my college, and frankly, even with my loans I couldn't afford off-campus housing. On-campus housing is the cheap, easy alternative for those in a bad financial situation. Besides, by the time a freshman is an upperclassman the games one would want to play would be old and probably out of date.
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I am still playing the same games from freshman year and I'm a Junior now. And my understanding was that its much more expensive to live on campus because its extremely convenient. At my school (and I thought it was generally like this at all schools) a single dorm room costs about $400/mo more than what I'm paying for off-campus housing.
Anyway, this happened with me the past two Fall quarters (since I lived on campus then). What happened was all the freshmen and transfer students who just moved in were so amazed by the speed of the network that they all simultaneously fired up Kazaa and downloaded tons of movies, mp3s, etc and played games non-stop. Eventually my school put in stricter bandwith limitations and harsher punishments for exceeding bandwith limits. And speeds eventually became more reasonable.