International Village/ Ruggles

Colorado_mom
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:37:05 +0000

As a mother who worries a lot, I was worried a bit about my son living in IV and walking through Ruggles. But after this week’s orientation sessions I feel a lot better.

From a logistics standpoint, it is not as bad as I thought. Yes, many freshman live on the other side of campus. But it would be easy to meet at the library (open 24 hours) to study. Also IV is closer to the “other” end of the station than I thought. As an added bonus, a good part of the walk to class is covered (protected from rain/snow).

From a safety standpoint, it sounds like there is a lot of protection from the campus police as well as MTA guards. Yea, late night walks would be better with a buddy… but tis true of all late night walks on a city campus.

We got a chance to ride the Orange Line and Green Line. It seemed ok, but we did not do very late night rides