Some NYU students are staying in $300-a-night hotel rooms as their "dorm room."

Many of your larger colleges and universities occasionally run out of dorm rooms, especially during the incoming fall semester. It tends to be a short-term problem, with students who paid thousands for residence on campus put up at local hotel rooms for roughly a month--until hundreds of students drop out, quit, grow homesick, or otherwise create space and a free bed in a dormitory.

Except this year, NYU is having longer-term issues. Over 145 students are still residing in hotels in the Manhattan area, including the Manhattan NYC--an Affinia Hotel (that's the official gasbag of a name), a $300-a-night room, where they'll likely stay for the duration of the school year.

According to the New York Times:


"The hotel room he shares with a roommate is outfitted with two double beds, a desk, a flat-screen TV, a coffee maker, a two-burner Miele gas cooktop, a microwave, and an iPhone docking station. Housekeeping comes twice a week to clean the room, change the sheets and refresh the bathroom, including changing the towels and refilling the shampoo and conditioner, which are dispensed via pump bottles."

That's right--odds are the students at NYU with the smoothest, most silky hair are the ones shacking up at the hotel. The guy with greasy hair? Don't blame him for poor washing habits. Blame NYU for not giving him a suite at the Ritz.

But there is a dark side to living at the Manhattan NYC, as 19-year old sophomore Zach Barela tells the Times:


"I don’t want to sound like a stereotypical N.Y.U. kid saying: ‘Oh, I hate Midtown,’ [...] but it does get so crowded that walking like a few blocks can take forever."


The horror! What else Zach?


“It doesn’t really feel like a community (living at the hotel). I don’t even know if there are any other students on my floor.”

If you listen really closely, that tiny little squeaking noise you hear in the distance is the world's tiniest violin playing.