<p>College stalker college stalker! <em>points</em></p>
<p>Being home very often so far has been winter break and spring break, and a part of summer pretty much, which is I think what most east coaster people do. The cheapest flights are about $220 if you book really early with Southwest or other budget airlines, but during summer and other high demand times airfare will be closer to $300 usually (as flierdeke said) with a stop somewhere.</p>
<p>Travel from the airport to Caltech isn’t a problem either, with the super shuttle taking you from door to door for $19 and if you’re more adventurous taking either a MTA thruway bus that takes you to union station and then you can take the metro to the station 1.3 miles off campus for about $5, or you can just take the metro plus the walk back from the station (my estimate a 2 hours or so trip one way when it’s 40 minutes by car about) for $3. Pretty much the metro is only useful if you don’t have much luggage.</p>