<p>I'm excited to be going to Hopkins next year and have a question for any current students out there! Is it easy to get to Washington DC from JHU? I know its only about an hour by car, but if you dont have a car is there a bus or train that gets you there quickly (and for cheap)? Do students go there frequently on the weekends to hang out and stuff? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>You wouldn’t do it spontaneously or often. You can get from the Homewood campus to Penn Station, and you can take Amtrak or MARC from Penn Station to Union Station in Washington, but it is something you’d plan in advance, and it would take a bit of time to do.</p>
<p>Baltimore is an interesting and diverting city in its own right. Very different from Washington, but quite nice if you’ll just consider it on its own terms. And if you’re going to Hopkins, then Baltimore, not Washington, is where you’re going to be.</p>
<p>thanks sikorsky! have you ever been at all?</p>
<p>I’m not a Hopkins student. Never have been. </p>
<p>But I have lived in Baltimore, and in Washington, and I now live in between the two.</p>
<p>Hey! I’m a Hopkins student and I basically went to D.C. spontaneously after class on a friday. My friends and I just took the Marc train (which is about 7 dollars each way). We just checked for the next train, took the JHMI (which is free) to Penn station and spent the rest of the day in D.C… It was great and pretty simple to do!</p>
<p>also some groups, such as JHU Democrats, have 1-2 trips to DC each semester where you pitch in like $5-10, you go on the bus and get dropped off in DC in the morning and just have to get back to the bus by a certain time.</p>