in and out of ithaca...

Lyse01
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:15:54 +0000

Being from outside NYC, I’ve done the bus a few times and done the drive many more.

You WILL want to kill the people on your bus. There is no way to ignore the screaming baby, the weird person sitting next to you, or the erratic bus driver. However, it gets you there, and you can accomplish some work, which you certainly can’t do while driving.

I found that while I wanted to go home regularly, I usually didn’t want to leave Cornell for that long. My random trips always happened to be on the weekend that the whole floor bonded at a party that they still bring up 5 years later, or the like, and the amount of work I needed to do usually trumped the desire to go anywhere. Remember also that NYC is a very expensive place, both to get to and to stay at. My recommendation is to find someone from there whose place you can crash at, and/or to go for an extended weekend, like Fall Break, to get the most out of it.