<p>Should I get it? and which one?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t buy one. You have to use the T a bunch of times to make the price worthwhile. Generally, you won’t use it that much at school unless you’re commuting far for a job or something. You’ll walk a lot of places, ride the T without paying (happens a lot on overground ones), use the BUS, etc. You can get a Charlie Card and add money as you go. Most likely, you’ll spend less than the $200 over the semester this way. At $1.70 a trip, even $100 will get you over 50 trips which seems ample. Add a little as you go though- like not more than $20- so if you lose it, you’re all set.</p>
<p>How have you gotten on above ground stops without paying? Because the driver didn’t care or because you got on one of the other cars (not the front)?</p>
<p>Yeah! If the T is really full and you get in the back then there’s no way you can walk to the front to pay. Oh well. 
They’ve been cracking down on people that don’t pay but I’ve never gotten a ticket.</p>
<p>what if you live in west campus? i’m in ENG and its a pretty far walk if its freezing/raining/snowing.</p>
<p>When I went to BU, I had a semester pass for several years. To be fair, all those years I worked or interned somewhere far that I did not want to walk to. However, my senior year I lost my monthly pass in DC at the start of the month and had to walk everywhere, luckily the weather was nice.
I walk about 3mph, and west campus to ENG would probabily take 25 or 30 minutes. In the winter that distance will be miserable. My recommendation is to wait, then buy weekly passes or monthly passes during the truely cold times of year (say January when the wind chill can be in the negatives). Weekly and monthly passes need 10 rides a week to be worth while (so one ride to class and one back M-F).
If you are not a walker, get a pass, because you will be walking almost 2 miles round trip everyday.</p>
<p>You kids are lazy. I lived in West Campus when it was new and walked two or three times per day to my classes at CLA (College of Liberal Arts), engineering and Morse Auditorium. If its cold get a coat, hat and gloves. No wonder everyone is obese.</p>
<p>I try to get on the T as little as possible. Not because I like walking but because I’m cheap. You can get away with using the T for very little and don’t really need a pass.</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t like the T.</p>
<p>Get the $59 dollar unlimited pass. Make it easier on yourself.</p>