UC Santa Barbara planned a dorm for 4,500 students with few windows and only 2 exits

[MineralMan]

22. I don't really have enough information to make a judgment on this.

We have one paragraph tweets. We can't see the interior layout of the place at all. The description is just too thin.

I trust this will all be reviewed by many, many people before it is built.

On the other hand, I was a dormie in my freshman year in college. Three story brick dorms with two people per very small room. It had windows, though, and faced another dorm. The other dorm was a women's dorm. I met a person who became a girlfriend, because her room was directly across from mine. We kept catching each other looking across the gap at each other. That evolved into waving at each other and finally meeting one day.

There were no shenanigans involved. The blinds were closed, except when we were sitting at our tiny desks studying. That's how we met - studying.

So, I like the idea of windows, but it sounds like this building is open, except for the individual rooms. Lots of public spaces in it, set up for lounging and meeting and hanging out. It could be OK, actually, with residents using those little rooms as sleeping spaces, pretty much, with most of the time spent in the public areas. That's what I would have done when living in a dorm. We did that, anyhow, since there were big common rooms on every floor. That's where we hung out when not sleeping or studying. The actual rooms were too small for two people, so there was lots of incentive to get out of them whenever possible.