Do Princeton students ever go out of town on the weekends? Location seems tricky

[Anonymous]

I went to Harvard and went into Boston very rarely - life is all about being on campus at these schools...

[Anonymous]

I dated a guy at Princeton when I was at Columbia. No big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard/MIT has Boston...Yale has train to NYC's Union Station...Chicago has Chicago...Stanford has SF...Penn has Philly and DC and NYC access. Even Brown has Providence and Boston somewhat close.

Is Princeton as isolated as it seems?

The reality is they don't. Even most Penn or Columbia kids do not go into Philly or NYC respectively too often eve though the schools are literally in the city. For Princeton it is even harder. People usually stick around.

Umm, no, definitely not true.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to imagine thinking of Princeton as "isolated".

Really.

Umm it's in the Jersey suburbs, college lists describe setting as suburban.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to imagine thinking of Princeton as "isolated".

Really.

Umm it's in the Jersey suburbs, college lists describe setting as suburban.

Dartmouth is isolated. The Jersey suburbs, with people commuting to NYC and Philly every day, are not isolated.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard/MIT has Boston...Yale has train to NYC's Union Station...Chicago has Chicago...Stanford has SF...Penn has Philly and DC and NYC access. Even Brown has Providence and Boston somewhat close.

Is Princeton as isolated as it seems?

The reality is they don't. Even most Penn or Columbia kids do not go into Philly or NYC respectively too often eve though the schools are literally in the city. For Princeton it is even harder. People usually stick around.

Umm, no, definitely not true.

Umm, yes, very true. Penn undergrad, Princeton Phd here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard and went into Boston very rarely - life is all about being on campus at these schools...

This. True for all the top schools really.

[Anonymous]

As an undergrad at Harvard, I probably went into Boston every other week. As a grad student at Princeton, I went into NYC maybe once a month. There is also a bus from Princeton to Port Authority (Suburban Transit). It’s a little cheaper and a little slower.

[Anonymous]

Oh and literally never went to Philly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard/MIT has Boston...Yale has train to NYC's Union Station...Chicago has Chicago...Stanford has SF...Penn has Philly and DC and NYC access. Even Brown has Providence and Boston somewhat close.

Is Princeton as isolated as it seems?

The reality is they don't. Even most Penn or Columbia kids do not go into Philly or NYC respectively too often eve though the schools are literally in the city. For Princeton it is even harder. People usually stick around.

I hate to break this to you, but Columbia is in NYC, so that might explain why you don't hear about their travels TO NYC very often. I mean, I know Morningside Heights feels as distant as Antarctica when you're living in the West Village, but it really is located in Manhattan.

Likewise, U Penn is located in Philadelphia proper. No need to "commute."

And, just to further blow your mind -- back when I was an undergrad at Columbia, I'd sometimes get a call from an old high school friend at UPenn at 6PM on a Friday, inviting me to a party that night. And thanks to NJ Transit and SEPTA, I'd swing out the door at 7PM in NYC, and be in her dorm room in Philadelphia by midnight, just when the party was starting to get good.

Never bothered to go to Princeton for the weekend, though. Had no desire to run into my cousins while out partying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard/MIT has Boston...Yale has train to NYC's Union Station...Chicago has Chicago...Stanford has SF...Penn has Philly and DC and NYC access. Even Brown has Providence and Boston somewhat close.

Is Princeton as isolated as it seems?

The reality is they don't. Even most Penn or Columbia kids do not go into Philly or NYC respectively too often even though the schools are literally in the city. For Princeton it is even harder. People usually stick around.

I hate to break this to you, but Columbia is in NYC, so that might explain why you don't hear about their travels TO NYC very often. I mean, I know Morningside Heights feels as distant as Antarctica when you're living in the West Village, but it really is located in Manhattan.

Likewise, U Penn is located in Philadelphia proper. No need to "commute."

And, just to further blow your mind -- back when I was an undergrad at Columbia, I'd sometimes get a call from an old high school friend at UPenn at 6PM on a Friday, inviting me to a party that night. And thanks to NJ Transit and SEPTA, I'd swing out the door at 7PM in NYC, and be in her dorm room in Philadelphia by midnight, just when the party was starting to get good.

Never bothered to go to Princeton for the weekend, though. Had no desire to run into my cousins while out partying.

I hate to break it to you but I said that both school are in the city. however kids do not leave the campus every weekend to go to Center City in philly or downtown manhattan in NYC. I trust you didn't commute to philly from NYC every other weekend right? Even if you did, most students do not.

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Anonymous wrote:People commute daily from Princeton to NYC. You can also get to philly easily.

...by car? It's 60 miles.

It's much further to NYC, but people do much longer commutes in NY/NJ.

[Anonymous]

I occasionally took the train to NYC senior year

When I lived on NYC after graduating, I knew many people who commuted from princeton.

[Anonymous]

Oh please Harvard and MIT are basically in Boston. People travelled to parties on both sides of the river all the time. Half of MIT's frat houses were in Boston. If they chose to stay in Cambridge it was only because it was a closer party.

[Anonymous]

It's not as isolated as you may think. Very frequent train service to Philadelphia and NYC, 19x7. But they go to Princeton, so nobody in Philadelphia or NYC wants to talk to them either.