transport me
Posted by Elizabeth Dunn
So today was the first day of classes at the School of Management, and the first day that I ventured to take the bus in from Hyannis.
All spring long I've been driving myself in to Boston, interviewing at the SOM, visiting, attending the odd lecture, stalking the odd professor of whom one thinks a great deal... and forking over various ungodly amounts to park and gas up my vehicle for the privilege.
That was all fine when I was only an occasional visitor. But now that I am a full-time student, with classes five days a week, I am a committed bus commuter.
It's not so bad. By car, with no traffic or impediments whatsoever, I can make it from my house to 409 Commonwealth Avenue in one hour and fifteen minutes flat. The buses are not quite so cavalier about the speed limit, sadly. That mode of transport takes a solid two hours.
But it's so great to be chauffeured and carried about effortlessly, you have no idea!
Here are just a few reasons why it's so great to take the Plymouth and Brocketon bus in to school, each day, two hours each way:
1. I don't have to drive.
2. It is MUCH cheaper than paying for gas and parking. MUCH.
3. I can sleep.
4. I can take one last look at my notes for the day's classes.
5. It's air-conditioned (my 12-year old Honda, sadly, is not).
6. It is clean (let's not talk about how my car measures up on that metric.)
7. It has a bathroom on board. (I can NOT overemphasize the awesomeness of this feature!! If you are saying ew, then you have not the weak bladder of my clan, and should be kneel in heartfelt gratitude. And not judge.)
8. It is two consecutive hours of quiet alone time, which I require each day without fail, or risk mental ill-health to the detriment of all who surround me.
9. It allows me to finally listen to all my friends' podcasts that I have been promising to listen to. For YEARS.
10. I have fond associations of bus travel, having used the P&B to get from Cape Cod to Mount Holyoke for holidays for four years. Anything that makes me feel like I'm 19 again is entirely welcome.
Also: I can sleep.
Really, truly, the vast unearthly power of a nap to restore and refresh cannot be underestimated.
And now, I'm going to sleep some more.
The first day of classes was a big pile of awesome, and thoroughly exhausting in strange and powerful ways.
Good night, and see you on Monday. I'll be fresh from a nap.
Posted: September 4, 2008 10:55 pm | 0 comments
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