Like a young writer dining on SpaghettiO’s, there is something poetic about college romance in a twin bed. But today’s Millennial students are over it. The generation known for its sense of entitlement is asking colleges for bigger beds, and administrators are responding, The Washington Post reported today.
Many students are too tall for the good old extralong twin, and more and more are too fat. Some are getting lucky, or hoping to. “It’s definitely much easier to have another person in the bed if the occasion arises,” a senior at American University told the Post.
American distributed about 115 double beds to upperclassmen through a lottery, the article says. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is also making the move. Parents may say that beds shouldn’t be double until they’re conjugal, but The Chronicle has yet to hear any outcry over the college-sanctioned pillow talk. —Sara Lipka
