{"id":2378,"date":"2018-05-01T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:02:06","slug":"why-do-forced-triples-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/01\/why-do-forced-triples-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do forced triples exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2373\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-1-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why do forced triples exist?\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-1-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why do forced triples exist?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are simply more students at BC than there is housing. Forced triples exist for the same reason that housing isn&#8217;t guaranteed for all four+ years you&#8217;re at BC. BUT there are some advantages: 1) you&#8217;re on Upper, which is pretty great; 2) reduced room and board costs makes the bill a bit easier to pay (or loans a bit smaller). The best thing to do is just embrace the minimalist lifestyle and find things to do outside your room. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, there are simply more students at BC than there is housing. Forced triples exist for the same reason that housing isn&#8217;t guaranteed for all four+ years you&#8217;re at BC. BUT there are some advantages: 1) you&#8217;re on Upper, which is pretty great; 2) reduced room and board costs makes the bill a bit easier &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/01\/why-do-forced-triples-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do forced triples exist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}