NY Times: When College Is Close to Home, What are the Boundaries?

<p>When I was in college, they referred to those kinds of schools as suitcase colleges… kids often went home on the weekends since they lived so close. I did that my first semester… went home every weekend except for two, then second semester only came home for spring break.</p>

<p>But because it was a suitcase college, I decided to transfer my junior year to a larger school in a metropolitan area because I wanted to be somewhere where there were things to do on the weekends and people to hang out with.</p>