<p>Penn is “a pain” to get to because of getting from Haverford – which is a lovely suburb of Philly, into Philly. Students would generally take the Paoli local train to 30th st – about a 20 minute ride - then hoof it to U Penn. Unlike hopping the blue bus between Bryn Mawr and Haverford, getting into Penn just takes more planning and attention to when the trains run etc. As the Paoli local is primarily a commuter line, the trains run less frequently mid-day and later in the evening. </p>
<p>As students, we all had tales of desperately running to catch last train out of Philly to H’ford/Bryn Mawr on a weekend night, for fear there would be no way home after that. Of course, we could have taken a cab, I suppose, but it would have been expensive and we were all too cheap for that.</p>