<p>If true, I see that. I’d rather go to Tufts than be forced to commute from home, no matter which school I was going to. But I imagine a sufficiently impassioned argument could take care of that, like “I’d rather get that extra 20 mins of sleep that i’d spend commuting each day”, or “I need to be right near my classmates to collaborate on stuff, or the library so I can borrow books, on a moment’s notice”.</p>
<p>Great word, “penurious”.</p>