Compass Lowell Essay

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UMass Lowell is a public institution where scholars, coming from all kinds of locations, can practice their education to their advantage to study for the career they wish to pursue. Whether students live on campus or commute to the campus on a daily basis, they recognize that it can be reasonable to access and travel to no matter where they come from. While most students live in a residence hall on campus, others can commute from their hometowns, using any form of transportation they can identify. Students that commute to school from Boston have simple options concerning travel to and from school, including driving in the traffic-congested Interstate highways, and riding a train on the hour-long Lowell Line, a commuter rail system that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates. However, few students that …show more content…
Such streets include State Route 2A (south of the town of Burlington), State Route 3A (north of the town of Burlington), and the Middlesex Turnpike, which connects the towns of Burlington and Billerica. Walking to UMass Lowell from Boston requires no gas, and students that elect to walk save money for their car and gasoline expenses. A student that would walk to school must walk almost twenty-six miles to reach the campus, which comes quite close to the same length as the modern-day Boston Marathon. Furthermore, walking to the school from Boston would possibly be the longest method of transportation; a student would walk for circa eight hours and thirty minutes before arriving at the school. That means that if a commuter from Boston had a class at ten in the morning, and would require his or her feet for transportation, they would need to leave their house at around one in the morning! In a similar way, if their final class of the day ended at six at night, they would not come home until almost three in the morning! Imagine

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