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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I am naive but why does it matter in terms of learning? [/quote]

Also, commuter schools like George Mason tend to have a higher percentage of older adult students.

I wasn't ready at 17 to go too far away for college, so I went to Mason and lived on campus.  Most of my classes were made up of commuter younger students and older adult students.  It's hard to form connections and also extremely hard to schedule study groups and group project sessions when everyone is in such a different place (literally and figuratively for the older students, many of whom were parents and also working full-time jobs).  My roommate was gone most weekends and a lot of evenings and the same was true of many of the people on my floor.  Even those who lived on campus acted like part time commuter students with how much they went home for meals, laundry, quiet study areas, etc.

I hated it so much after my first semester that I enrolled in NVCC for Spring semester and left Mason.  That fall I transferred to UVA where I was required to live on campus as a new incoming student and even though I was housed with Freshmen, it was the BEST experience.  I made fast friends with my dorm mates and people in my classes.  There were very little scheduling issues because everyone was on the same level.  It was just a completely difference experience and what my peers who went away to other colleges experienced their first year vs. my disaster semester.     [/quote]

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