I ran into an old friend from my time doing factory work the other day. He's going to the same college I am, and he's starting this September, just like I am. Looks like I will have a schoolmate. He's going to be commuting to school, via a GO bus. I had thought that I'd gone over my options, but I guess I hadn't done my research properly. At this point in time, I've already paid for my residence, so I'll just go forward with what I've done, but this is something to keep in mind for next year.
The GO bus website is really confused, though. It's not like the Greyhound, where you just plug in your locations and they tell you what your options are. They will tell you what the routes for their major locations are, and they will tell you the locations of their smaller stations, but not their schedule. So I can tell that Kitchener and Guelph both have stations, but I can't figure out if they connect.
If I get a monthly student pass, though, then using a GO bus and living at home is overall less expensive.
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Money isn't the only cost to consider, though ... don't forget the time you'll spend in transit, and the cushion you'll have to allow yourself to make sure you get to your first class on time (or the opportunity cost of missing your first class if you miss a bus).
ReplyDeleteTime may not be that much of a factor, depending on how heavy your course load is and what else you have on your plate, but it might turn out that you'd prefer to live in residence and not worry about traffic and such. (Or maybe it won't be a big deal, and the money you'll save will be important.)