![]() While you check the train delay status on the SEPTA app, your friends discuss the hall dinner their RA planned last weekend, or their go–to order at Allegro's after a night out. Sometimes, the difficulties of commuting vastly outweigh the benefits, but experiences vary drastically, especially based on how far and how long you’re traveling. Still, there are students who do it from within a few miles of campus to across state lines, primarily because of financial reasons-although your parents’ homemade cooking is certainly a plus. Students who live on–campus can stop by their rooms or crash on the couch during breaks between classes, but commuters don’t have the same luxury. Commuting certainly comes with challenges, like being away from home for more than 12 consecutive hours a day, or delays on an already long train ride. The commuter population at Penn is much smaller than other nearby schools, such as Temple University or Chestnut Hill College, largely because the campus was designed to be residential. For the spring semester, she and her sister moved back to Philadelphia into a relatively inexpensive sublet. “It was purely financial,” Christina says. She was supposed to live on campus that fall, but her sister’s graduate school was more expensive than her family expected, so they both lived at home to cut back on costs. When Christina was living with her parents, she’d make the trek with her older sister, then a Master’s student at Penn. Her busy schedule and the chronic sleep deprivation eventually became too much and she stopped commuting. ![]() train back and wouldn’t get home until 11.Ĭhristina made this trip daily during the fall semester of her sophomore year, as well as the previous summer, when she was working in a lab on campus full–time. ![]() ![]() On nights when her a cappella group rehearsed, she’d take the 9 p.m. to get to campus on time.Ĭommuting from her family home in Northern Delaware, Christina took a SEPTA Regional Rail train each morning, which averaged 60 to 70 minutes per trip. Students like Christina Kim (E ‘22), however, don’t have this luxury-she regularly had to wake up at 5:45 a.m. After snoozing your alarm three times, you roll out of bed in a rush, throw on a pair of pants you picked up from the floor, and weave your way through the throng of students on Locust heading to their 10:15 classes.
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