A number of media outlets have been reporting on the freshman at Michigan State University who by chance was assigned to the same dorm room his father had 30 years earlier. From all the media reports, it seems as though everyone involved thinks it’s a pretty neat coincidence.
When I was in college, my friends and I would occasionally switch the school’s name around and tell people we were students at State Penn. The average dorm room is only slightly larger than the average jail cell (12′ x 19′ versus 8′ x 12′), but I always assumed that a student’s living quarters were better maintained than an inmate’s. Now I’m not so sure.
According to those same media reports, the father’s first hint that it was the same room was that, 30 years later, the window latch was still broken.