Grab A Bunk In The Dot-Com Dorm

airrage writes "According to this Washington Post article, the University of Maryland has created "dot com" like dorms complete will all the necessary executive perks: wood desks, leather chairs, wireless, whiteboards; all to encourage entrepreneurship. Apparently, it's working too. Twenty of the students have created their own start-up firms, and six are already generating revenue."

Comments

A sad trend.

[Find love Online]

Has anyone else noticed this sort of 'stratification' of the student housing on various campuses? Here at ISU they're building a lot of these 'student sweets' that cost more then regular dorms. I think its kind of sad, as one of the most interesting things about collage life is that for the most part its a true meritocracy, and you get to meet people from all different walks of life and social backgrounds (and, once you get out you're all mostly on the same playing field, depending on how well you did :P)

Now we add these stratifications, and... I donno it just seems wrong and in the least unnecessary.

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Anyway, a more specific comment about this dorm. All I can say is 'belch' The business world will be soul sucking enough when I get out of collage. To me collage is supposed to be about learning and academia. Not about becoming the next money grubbing enronite. The whole 'money money money gimmy gimmy gimmy' culture is just so repulsive. I mean, I understand the desire for money, I do. I really do like money... (hell, just look at my sig : P). But this thing sounds like it's a breading ground for the kinds of people who put money above everything else, including the value to society. Lots of people would love to stifle innovation and humanity for profits (just look at the RIAA, Enron's roll in the California energy crisis, Microsoft, etc)

I guess I wish more people would try to think more of their impact on society rather then how much money they make. You can make a lot of money while making the world a better place (i.e. google, as a simple example) but the two things are not intrinsically bound.

I think this school should be more worried about teaching it's business students humanity rather then trying to shove them off into the dog-eat-dog world as soon as possible.

Six Generating Revenue....Mmmhmm.

[Bowie J. Poag]

"Twenty of the students have created their own start-up firms, and six are already generating revenue."

And two of them even carry fat chick porn!

Cheers,