Two Princeton grads are turning this Texas resort into a COVID-19 bubble college campus

[TexasTowelie]

It's no secret that college has looked a lot different in the past few months.

Two Princeton grads believe they have solved the problem of a bad college experience during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and they're bringing the idea to Tanglewood Resort north of Dallas for the spring semester. Texas, meet The U Experience.

It's supposed to work like this: 150 students taking online-only college courses will be invited to join a COVID-19 "bubble community" with the other students in the program. With that, founders Lane Russell and Adam Bragg believe the resort they bought out will be able to look like a pre-pandemic college campus.

"Simply put, if COVID-19 can’t make its way into the bubble, there’s no way to catch it," The U Experience FAQ page says. "Our students will be free to behave as they did before the pandemic while they're on campus, without taking on any more risk than if they'd quarantined at home. No masks, social distancing, or other cautionary measures will be required of our students when interacting with each other. Feel free to take a sigh of relief."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/the-u-experience-texas-university-covid19-bubble-15782013.php

[tanyev]

1. That could work great...until someone gets bored with the bubble and the people in it

and decides to break quarantine. And then they won't wear a mask because that would be a tip-off that they'd done something, and boom, there goes the bubble.

[Javaman]

2. what could go wrong?

I see their road is paved with good intentions. LOL