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Were your dorm rooms brand new and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and forced upon the university and city via throwing money around?

Also, there are plenty of reports of just how bad his designs are: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residence...

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> Also, there are plenty of reports of just how bad his designs are.

There's also plenty of great reviews of it. [1] 8.3/10 seems hardly catastrophic, especially if it gives people an affordable place to live.

I feel like the vast majority of the criticisms come from people who definitely didn't live in them.

[1] https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...

the bad ones are in Santa Barbara

The "bad ones" in Santa Barbara never got built, no? So people definitely didn't live in them.

> Were your dorm rooms brand new and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and forced upon the university and city via throwing money around?

Irrelevant to whether or not I would enjoy being in them.

It's not really irrelevant. If someone spent all that money and effort on a building and you had no windows or exposure to outside light until you left the building, you don't think that would affect your enjoyment of the building? Especially knowing that perfectly serviceable and better alternatives exist but that's what they went with?

So I take it you lived here?

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