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For this course I will be doing research on those students who commute to school. I have been commuting for the past year and a half and I can see how different life is for those students who are still living on campus. I will explore the reasons why students decide to commute, the impact in their social life and in their academics. Also, I would like to compare who tend to do better in their classes those students that commute or those who live on campus. I am not sure if this is still a broad topic but I find it interesting since I can relate to it.

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  1. Michael GoellerSeptember 28, 2017 at 9:39 AM

    I commented on Christopher's blog, and he is doing this topic also, so I am pretty much reproducing the comment I wrote for him (and I will encourage you to compare notes as the semester progresses). This is a very interesting topic, and several former students have researched it. It would not hurt to look at their blogs, which point to some interesting readings:

    http://commuterproblem.blogspot.com/
    http://dormlife2.blogspot.com/
    http://karinagustin.blogspot.com/
    http://ashleyshanley.blogspot.com/
    http://durandcollege201.blogspot.com/

    One student argued that commuting is a self-enforcing lifestyle or vicious cycle that has negative effects on college success because students need to work long hours to pay for their cars and insurance to afford commuting, because they have a car they are more likely to commute to work as well (and the car makes more lucrative employment available to them), commuting itself cuts into study time and time with fellow students, without time they have difficulty connecting with fellow students on campus so they become less integrated into the school culture (and more likely to make close friendships with their work friends and home-town friends who did not go to college), and all of these things lead them to be more disengaged from college and more likely to drop out.

    One thing worth noting is that Rutgers has increased the number of students living on campus and the availability of campus housing in recent years so that now more than half of Rutgers students live on campus. We have also seen more local private housing for students very near campus. But both dorms and nearby housing have gotten more expensive, which may make it even more difficult for less affluent students to live on or near campus, and may reinforce the class divide that is growing between dorming / campus living and commuting.

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