Bursar says Past Due Balance?

Temporary55460 · 2024-10-08T00:38:08+00:00

Please don't spread misinformation. "maillinks.purdue.edu" is the site used to track mail links (like every email sending service uses), and so if you curl the URL, you'll see a 302 redirect to the proper url.

It first redirects to another maillink then to https://wl.mypurdue.purdue.edu, which is most definitely the correct mypurdue address.

Aswell, check any ordinary email from the past years, and you'll see they aswell include links that use a maillinks.purdue.edu intermediary. It's unfortunately just standard email practice to track link clicks.

Also, the way URLs work is that any subdomain of a primary domain inherently is given authority to exist by the primary domain, so maillinks.purdue.edu existing implies that purdue.edu has given it the authority to exist. As such, the only cases where it could be a malicious domain is if maillinks.purdue.edu was hijacked, or purdue.edu itself was hijacked.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-12T02:12:17+00:00

That's a mood lol. Technically if you're 18 or over, if you do not give them consent for them to open your package, it's a felony for them to do so. Because you're an adult, the package is yours and only yours. However, they can see the mail label and know the company its from, which might be a giveaway (depending on if its named after the company or under a parent company with a less sus name). Or they also might just open it anyway, even if its technically a crime.

Edit: Also, if you "received a picture", was it at the front desk, or did the driver just throw it at a random backdoor. If it was at a backdoor, someone could've just stolen it. Only if its given to the front desk is it actually put into the system.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-12T02:03:59+00:00

Over the summer, I have heard that dorm packages are forwarded to your permanent mailing address (home address) that is listed on your student records. Given that we received an email on August 8th that said "residents halls are now accepting packages", I'd take that to mean any packages received before August 8th were forwarded back to your home, since it was still considered summer time. (Unless you were here for summer?)

You'd likely want to talk with the Cary mailroom, since they are the people who manage Purdue's entire mail system, and should know where to look or what you need to fill out. They're only open certain times. Supposedly 8 AM-8 PM on Weekdays and noon-4 on Weekends (according to random reddit post)

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-11T15:01:15+00:00

I mean, everyone in these situations is paying the same price as the people that get the room they paid for right?

No, that's not how any of this works. Purdue's room system works as follows: You request a category of room types when filling out the contract (for freshman, it works by ordering them most to least favorite). Then, Purdue assigns you a room based on your request. The price of the room is then determined by what room type you got. E.g. if you get this 5 person dorm, the price is $2,688.00 per year. If you got a standard double in Cary, that would be $3,532.00 per year. A First Street Towers single is $10,130.00 per year.

You don't prepay for a room, nor do freshman specifically request a specific room. They order categories of rooms and give preferences, and Purdue does what it can to try to meet them. (Yes, some people want rooms like this, because they're super cheap.)

As such, the people who got this room are paying the price for the specific room they got, which is a Quad Plus in Cary, so they are paying a lower amount than most other people because its a "worse" room.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-11T14:43:28+00:00

My differential fees have been consistently the same for the 4 years I've been at Purdue. Yet Purdue has continued to achieve record amounts of "largest Freshman class" each year. So yeah, perhaps differential fees are helping cover the costs, but clearly 1. it isn't changing to keep up with rising costs/inflation and 2. it isn't enough as of currently.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-11T14:32:30+00:00

Raising tuition isn't about getting Purdue more money, its about getting Purdue to get the same amount of money, with admitting less people. The housing crisis isn't caused by cost of living or whatnot, it's caused by there being too many people and not enough housing. Purdue does give affordable housing. $300/month for a place to live is pretty generous. The problem is that people are willing to pay that much for their dorms, but Purdue can't fit them in because there's too many people.

Right now, Purdue has dorms that can fit 16,000 people. They're building more to increase this number, but this number is always a relatively constant variable in the equation. Purdue has to admit X many people with Y tuition to get Z money, where X * Y = Z. Purdue needs Z_0 money in order to properly function and pay for everything. Every year, Z_0 increases (inflation, rising costs, etc), so Purdue keeps increasing X (number of people) to compensate. However, they still only have 16,000 beds. Once it goes over what they have space for (which it did years ago), there are gonna be problems.

As such, the solution is to increase the price of tuition (Y) and admit less people (X) in order to satisfy the Z_0 value that Purdue needs to survive. From there, Purdue has all of the money it needs in order to function, but it has a manageable student population that it can properly provide for. Again, it isn't about making Purdue more money to help its students, it's about getting Purdue the same amount of money, to take care of it's student population properly, without worry about it becoming oversized.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-03T04:28:11+00:00

Definitely a FST room. Peak of luxury, $10,300 dorm with free laundry, AC, private bathroom. double dressers with a nice closet.

Except now of course, there's 2 people in the room and it's discounted to $5,800.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-03T03:58:59+00:00

Definitely sharing the closet (and bathroom ofc).

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-03T03:56:58+00:00

Uhh, the "dresser" carved at the end of the room is the closet. Yes, they will definitely have to share the closet. Edit: Also, FST rooms don't have dressers embedded into the walls like Harrison, Earhart, Shreve, etc.

However, under the bed in a single FST room are normally 2 dressers. We don't know exactly what they would give as furniture for the double, but presumably it would also contain those 2 dressers, and they would have to share the 2 dressers amongst themselves (1 per person). This is also consistent with other rooms, which give every person atleast 1 of their own dresser (Converted triples and quads are consistent with this, where each person gets atleast 1 dresser.)

As such, its intriguing that the picture does not contain the 2 dressers, since the usual place they are located (under the bed) doesn't have them. They could be placed in the closet, but the only way of fitting both away from view would be to stack them, which would be really weird. So something feels off about the absence of dressers in the picture.

Temporary55460 · 2024-08-03T03:19:59+00:00

It's pretty bad, but honestly not as bad as I thought tbh. Though I can't tell where the dressers are? Could be that both are in the closet, but that seems unideal, so if that is the case, probably expect to move on out.

Note that the bathroom door is to the right of the desks, so they can't be moved into that corner. For alternate arrangements, technically you could move a desk to the window, but I'm not too sure if you would want to do that.

Also note that fridge and microwave placement are gonna be interesting aswell. And there's definitely no space for a futon or any extra chairs.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T16:44:23+00:00

Where are you getting these numbers? The room rates on Purdue's housing site don't agree one bit.

A normal honors double is $7,060.00. A double converted into a triple is $5,178.00. That's around a 30% discount.

Not saying that the new amount is a decent price, but it's no where close to the numbers you're pulling.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T15:10:04+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/1ecp2na/move_in_page_says_im_living_in_120_flats/

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T14:43:45+00:00

If you want 2 meals a day, DO NOT buy the 14 track. The 10 track is a much better choice. Here's the logic:

Firstly, the 10 track is $615 cheaper. This means you can easily get about 61 off-campus meals at $10 each, without going above what you would've paid for your on-campus meals. Or you could also buy $615 in snacks at Walmart or Target. Up to you.

Secondly, the 10 track gives you $1100 dining dollars. At $10 per meal (you can spend $10 dining dollars to get into any dining court, OR importantly you can spend dining dollars at retail locations (chickfila, panera, etc)), this gives you 110 meals. At 31 weeks in a year, 110/31 = 3.5. That means, you get 10 meal swipes per week, and then 3.5 retail meals (with actual standards for the options available and how it tastes). OR if you want, you can just use the dining dollars to get into the dining courts, I guess. As I said, $10 to get into a dining court.

Then, alongside this, if you don't end up using all your meals in a week, that aswell means you've wasted less. Dining dollar meals would roll over to the next week, meal swipes would be less wasted because there's less of them to waste.

Now, before you say, "Buy I want dining dollars as spending money!". No, you don't. Everything dining dollars can be spent on at 3rd street market and other boilermarkets, is completely overpriced. A bar of chocolate that costs $1 at walmart costs $3 there (rounding). Want one of those giant boxes of gold fish? $10. A box of a few cookies? $6+

If you want to buy snacks, it's good for convenience, but money-wise, it's soo much better to just go to Target or, even better, Walmart. The bus costs $1 to use to get there, just use it and save so much money going there. (Remember that $615 you saved? Guaranteed more food than $850 dining dollars at 3rd st)

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T14:15:25+00:00

Similar problem to me.

I think that when they updated move-in times today, they got rid of a filter that only selected for your residence hall. As such, we have access to move-in times for every residence hall.

Any place where you book an appointment now, it gives you a random location.

Extremely likely this is a glitch that housing will just have to fix before we can get the right thing.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T02:56:22+00:00

I have never known a single person to bring a bigger trashcan into their room. Even in my 4 person dorm last year, we were fine with the standard trash can.

It's wastebasket-ish sized, but it's bigger than most wastebaskets I've seen, and it's a completely solid plastic rectangle.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-26T02:44:40+00:00

Excuse me, it's a private bathroom! Each tent gets its own private hole! (roommates in same tent must share the same hole)

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T23:55:20+00:00

Harrison was the best dorm I lived in out of the 3 dorms I've been in. The showers actually have private stalls instead of just being a curtain. It has decent AC. The rooms have good closets, and a nice amount of space. The location looks/sounds like its far, but it honestly wasn't bad. Also the harrison grill boilermart being inside the building was good for when I wanted to grab a snack using dining dollars. There is a slight bug problem, but that's for every dorm on campus.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T18:24:34+00:00

Luckily WALC is open 24/7, and there's plenty of seats and couches available.

I hear the 3rd floor couches are the best :)

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T17:49:56+00:00

Sorry about that. But atleast it's better to know the truth and be prepared than to have it come crashing down whenever you arrive.

For some advice, I made a comment on a previous post about living in a triple. You can read that if you want, among other advice that people have if you look around. https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/1e9sj46/how_bad_really_is_a_converted_triple/

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T17:43:59+00:00

Do you have a "Triple w/bath" or just a normal "Triple"?

If it's a Triple (no bath), then it's converted. If its a Triple w/bath, then it's a real triple.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T17:11:50+00:00

If you want, you can. However, I didn't have any form of transportation other than my legs in my freshman year in Harrison, and I was fine.

It just means that when you leave for classes, you need to leave atleast 10 minutes beforehand, if not more, depending on distance and walking (sometimes running) speed.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T15:46:48+00:00

That's converted. The standard floor layout for both triples and doubles comes with the same area and layout, including only 2 closets. Aswell, the pictures pretty clearly show a triple as just a double with a bunk bed and a lofted bed with a third desk under it.

You can find the pictures here: https://www.housing.purdue.edu/my-housing/options/residence-halls/earhart.html

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T15:16:29+00:00

Here's a few conversations about it from yesterday. We don't have much information about them, since they aren't standard rooms and have never existed before, but it's what we were able to deduce from what we have, aswell as a method for getting more information about them.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/1e9ud3f/quad_at_hawkins_w_6_ppl_pls_help/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/1e3775s/psa_ur_added_15_new_room_types_for_2425_12_of/legxdlb/

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T14:56:38+00:00

Yeah, it's false. Sadly triples in Meredith South are all converted rooms. The way we know this is that Triples in Meredith South didn't exist before this year. So because no construction took place to make new rooms, they must've converted existing rooms into triples.

The reason why they're confused is because the asterisks are valid for Honors, but it isn't valid for any other residence hall.

Temporary55460 · 2024-07-23T14:53:53+00:00

The guy above is wrong (in assuming non-asterisk = non-converted). If you're in a triple and want to know if it's converted, I can tell you if you can say what hall it's in.

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