@Pizzagirl seems as if we have very different ideas of rural. To me walking about 300 feet fr the campus gates to town with sushi and a movie theater among other commercial concerns is not rural. Hopping a 30 minute shuttle to major airport with direct flights is not rural. Jumping on free bus which takes you in 20 to all the popular consumer warehouses bedbathandbs target el al is not rural.
D commented over spring break how convenient the piñoneer valley is, as opposed to where we live in costal Los Angeles. No MHC is not Barnard is terms of city life. But it’s not isolated. Far from it.