My friend, Tali (happy birthday, Tali!!) told me to live on campus. She said that INSEAD would be hard to navigate from Bedok. Tali was right. I stayed in Bedok, and it's been hard. My commute in the morning is 1 hour and 10 minutes, and though I get a lot done on the train, I have to leave at 6:45 in order to for sure make my first class. If I miss all three modes of transportation, it could take 1 hour and 45 minutes...It sucks. I don't like the commute. When I go home at night. I'm home. I don't go out for dinner with INSEAD folks, and I don't go to the bars with them too often. When I do go out, I often feel bad, because it means I won't see Matt at all that day (Matt are you reading my blog while I'm gone?).
Philadelphia is a new world. My dorm is a block from campus. I could leave ten minutes before class and be on time. I can go for a group meeting at any time, go home and change, and then I can go out for dinner. I can do anything I want. I'm a 15 minute bus ride from Center City rather than a 1 hour bus ride or 40 minute MRT ride from downtown Singapore, and I am loving it.
Convenience really is convenient!
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