<p>Man, I wish I could afford to live in a neighborhood a “yukky” as Bryn Mawr. It’s only one of the nicest neighborhoods in the country. Sheesh. </p>
<p>Here’s a photo from Bing maps of a cute “little bungalow” just around the corner from Bryn Mawr College. Maybe it’s just me, but this just doesn’t look that “yukky” to me. You’ll have to click and drag the photo around a bit to see the rest of the “back yard” and the “front yard”:</p>
<p>Wellesley’s also in a wealthy neighborhood of Massachusetts. And there might not be easy public transportation, but they have shuttles to Cambridge, which should suffice.</p>
<p>What I don’t get about Haverford/Bryn Mawr is how everyone says they’re two campuses of the same school… but then proceed to ignore the resultant 1:3 gender ratio. As someone said, a raw deal for BMC when HC went coed and for HC’s current female students. Of course, the Five College Consortium is probably worse once you subtract UMass.</p>
<p>Wellesley has train service, too. It’s just that the station is more than .75 from campus. At Bryn Mawr, it’s only about .4 miles – a 7 minute walk. Wellesley does have shuttle vans to MIT which, I believe also stop at the “T” station (Boston’s subway) closest to Campus.</p>
<p>One advantage of Philly is that you have very quick train or bus access to points north (NYC) and south (D.C.). Boston is a hike to NYC</p>
<p>That would probably be the Senate Bus, which runs on the weekends. (That nickname wasn’t in existence when I was there, back in the Dark Ages, when people were nevertheless very, er, active. After the pill and parietals, before AIDS and STDs. )</p>
<p>ROFL at Bryn Mawr being a “yucky part of PA.” The town of Bryn Mawr, and the college itself, is about as gorgeous as one can find. It’s out of Central Casting.</p>
<p>It seems that the “term gained national notoriety when it was mentioned in a 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl” </p>
<p>According to The Bi-College News of Haverford and Bryn Mawr, a bus sharing the same nickname by connects Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford. Good for the Barnard girls that they do need much transportation, as one could shudder at the nicknames coming from NYC. </p>
<p>Tongue-in-cheek comments and sarcasm are still well alive.</p>
<p>rocket - You could attend Bryn Mawr for 4 years and not once go into Philly. No one’s forcing you into the city, unless you want to major in linguistics (in which case you will want to take advantage of Penn’s tremendous resources).</p>
<p>Keli-i know i wouldn’t have to go to Philly, but i would be really close…and my moral conscience can’t handle that…
but i do think bryn is pretty(hence the hogwarts comment)…but Smith is still boss</p>
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