There's a good New York

There's a good New York Times article online today about co-op housing at colleges and universities. The article focuses mainly on the University of Texas, but it was interesting to me because Stanford also had a pretty active co-op housing community. I didn't live in one, but I did eat in one. I belonged to what my friend Alex nicknamed my "communist kitchen," where we committed to either cooking or cleaning one day a week and in return, got hot meals six night a week and a key to the building for all other meal times. It was one of the very best things about my time at Stanford. I ate much healthier than I would have on my own, always had company at mealtimes, and met so many interesting people from around the world. It was cool.