<p>I should have clarified, I didn’t necessarily mean to imply that Madison is a nothing-town, but that there isn’t a whole lot in close vicinity to it. Chicago and Milwaukee are both day trips, but possibly difficult to do if a student doesn’t have a car…and I don’t know what the public transit is like between Chicago and Madison. One of my best friends traveled through Madison for work a couple years back and said it was pretty sparse in the surrounding area. UVA can very much be the same way, but I know at the very least there is ample public transit and other ways to get to DC.</p>