Hi Easton. Whether you can get along with an efficiency kitchen or not I cannot answer. But you are a student and if you like the apartment there is a lot you can do with not all that many heating gadgets.
There is a wonderful museum in Boston, on the Fenway, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It is certainly worth a look.
No, I am not changing the topic. When they opened a restaurant (for lunches I believe) the place had little more than a hotplate, an electric frying pan and maybe another couple of simple heating devices.
And the chef, a woman named Lois McKitchen Conroy used to turn out great plates with nothing more than those items. I have eaten there several times a number of years ago.
I know she did it initially in sparse kitchen surroundings because she then wrote a cookbook describing the stark atmosphere. But it is mostly a cookbook that includes many of the recipes she managed to come up with.
It is one of my favorite cookbooks. Whenever I feel bereft because I lack the needed cooking equipment, I open the book of the lady with the middle name of McKitchen (what a great name for a cook).
It used to be sold at the museum store ($15, or so, I think), but I can no longer find it listed on the website. But maybe they still have it, you can always call.
But better than that is you can pick up a used copy for a song from Amazon (a song being less than a couple of bucks plus of course the S&H).
If you like the apartment, and feel comfortable, go for it. You will have many challanges in the next few years. Cooking in an efficiency might just be one of the more pleasant of them.