When your dorm room is at the W, student housing offers a dose of the high life
As the pandemic has forced area colleges to get creative in their efforts to mitigate the on-campus impact of COVID-19, some have turned to an unusual arrangement: renting out entire floors of hotels for the coming school year as a way to supplement on-campus housing and ensure students remain socially distant.

The biggest beneficiaries, without question, have been the students, who suddenly find themselves enjoying the kind of luxurious existence previously unthinkable in undergraduate living.

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Boston’s hotel industry has been hit harder than all but two other metro areas
As pandemic upends campus life, students turn to community college
Governor Baker to returning college students: ‘be smart’ amid coronavirus

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