NYTimes: Power Shifting from Institutions to Students

That’s a bit of a leap of logic considering several overlapping undergrad classmates and recent alums within the last 5 years include quite a few extreme neatniks who were initially mistaken by mutual friends as having OCD.

Also, the Oberlin dorms I stayed in were in such fine condition they were actually better than most of the post-college apartments my college classmates and I were able to get with the exception of the ones with large trust funds/wealthy generous parents who fully defrayed their high rent/living expenses or bought them a unit in a luxury condo.

Incidentally, one of my post-college roommates is an extreme neatnik* who lived with me for ~5 years.

  • Several Boston area friends including a few older millennials thought i was living with a fashion conscious female roommate because of the degree of exhibited neatnikness and high degree of color coordination. A few adamantly refused to believe the room** belonged to a male roommate until he happened to come into the apartment and go into that room.

** Our habits were to keep our bedroom doors open when we were out and no one minded guests seeing each of our rooms so long as we never stepped inside without asking for and receiving permission to do so beforehand.