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Itisatruth
Tue, 05 May 2020 04:23:21 +0000

@corinnaolson I can answer that as a Philly resident (and parent of a BMC '25 student). The Septa commuter train runs every 1-2 hours from a station a very short walk (5-10min) from the Bryn Mawr campus to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia (and on to 2 more stations in Center City). It takes 23 min to 30th Street, and 30 min to Jefferson Station near Jefferson University (east of Broad Street). So, if you had an internship from 12-5pm, for example, you could take an 11:18 train from Bryn Mawr and be at your internship by noon. If you wanted to go to a restaurant or music venue in the evening, same deal. And of course, splitting Uber/Lyft with a few people is also easy and fairly affordable. Depending on traffic and where you’re headed in the city, it’s 20-40 minutes from campus by car.

Bryn Mawr (technically part of Lower Merion Township, not a separate town) has a cute, bustling commercial strip also a very short walk from campus (just past the train station). The main drag (Lancaster Avenue) runs all the way through the “Main Line” suburbs, from City Line Avenue at the Philadelphia city line all the way out to Villanova. The Bryn Mawr section of Lancaster Avenue has restaurants, a great movie theater, an amazing public library, coffee shops, thrift stores, and all the basics like pharmacies, banks, nail salons, even a Staples.

I can’t speak to how often Bryn Mawr students actually go into Philadelphia, but I know my daughter plans to continue to take advantage of the Philly music scene, thrift and vintage shopping, arts, urban parks, events, etc. when she’s at Bryn Mawr…