Penn College Senior Lives in Forest Hut Near Campus
Forget the dorms! Live in a forest hut.
ABC News reports.
Pennsylvania College Senior Lives in Forest Hut Outside Campus
A college senior from Juniata College in Pennsylvania has been garnering lots of attention for choosing to live in a self-made hut for the past seven months in the woods about a mile outside campus.
But even more improbable is that student Dylan Miller, 22, says he has already been living outdoors consistently for the past two years.
“I got sick of living in the dorms, and I thought I could save $4,000 a semester living outside, where I love to be,” Miller told ABC News today. “I’d set up hammocks in the woods, and I took shelter inside caves during the colder months.”
Last summer, his dad suggested he live in the woods for his senior project like American writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom he had read avidly, Miller said.
Miller started building the circular hut in June in Juniata’s Baker-Henry Nature Reserve using materials like donated wooden planks for the floors, fallen branches for the walls and tarp for the roof, he said.
Comments
Did he complete an environmental impact study like any other builder would have to do?
Is he considered a squatter, or is he paying some sort of land use fee?
Sorry, kid, you’re not allowed to be self-sufficient these days. Too many rules & regs ~
This is a silly thing to make a fuss over. Homeless people do this sort of thing all the time.
I’ve done something similar while working in the lumber industry, and at fish camp, and while hunting.
The only real challenge I see is keeping the school books, computers, etc dry.
In college, we had a student who slept in their stationwagon out in the long-term student parking, used the gym facilities for showers, etc… I would imagine you could do almost the same thing in a small RV, although the campus authorities would certainly have kittens over the idea.