The Disneyfication of college campuses does not make education more affordable.

[hunter]

I graduated from college without any loans. No, my parents were not wealthy.

I remember a lot of the college labs I worked in were worn but functional. And most of them were not at all pretty, having been hastily constructed during the Sputnik crisis and the intensification of the Cold War, when the U.S.A. realized once again in a visceral way that science was important.