Turns out this is a personal lifestyle choice as his parents have actually paid for a room for him.<p>Meanwhile, there really are homeless students in the US.<p><i>"In 2009, 47,204 college students applying for financial aid checked a box that identified themselves as homeless."</i> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/homeless-college-students_1_n_802844.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/homeless-college-st...</a><p><i>"I have had homeless students before. In fact, when the recession began to rear its ugly head the number of students in our high school who lived in shelters grew and grew and grew... Whenever I found out that a student was homeless, the puzzle pieces suddenly fit together -- the fatigue, the sudden weight loss, the increasingly dirtiness of their clothing or unkempt elements of their personal self. "Oh..." I would think, "That's what's going on.""</i> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-ungemah/homeless-in-college_b_2271926.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-ungemah/homeless-in-colle...</a><p>Of course, there are also homeless people who aren't even students trying to live on campus too.<p><i>"The library at Cambridge University's largest college has been playing host to a mysterious user with a collection of supermarket bags, vague claims of doing a doctorate on religion and a habit of dozing off. The unexpected visitor was the subject of speculation at St John's College over several weeks, according to students, before he was asked to leave by staff after failing to show that he was entitled to use the library or the college's other ancient premises."</i> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/27/homeless-man-cambridge-library-weeks" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/27/homeless-man...</a>
It's an interestingly unique lifestyle, and I'm sure for his station in life and personal philosophy it's the lifestyle he needs.<p>There is one thing that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.<p><i>There’s this parental lifeline that fulfills all of our physical needs</i><p>Sleeping around on a college campus still makes use of things the campus provides. Everything is still provided to him, a bed and shower are the easiest campus amenities to find elsewhere. In college, the campus was my home, the dorm was lockable storage with a bed. His lifestyle is just a slightly more adventitious version of one I saw dozens fo times: entering your dormroom 2 times a semester because you're really living in your girlfrined's dormroom.
So some ignoramus has mom and dad money pay for his apartment while he needlessly mooches off others because, in his own words, "I'm trying to be the change I need to see". He sounds like a dumb shithead.<p>Edit: to anyone who downvotes without explanation: you are a coward.