Word: subways
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Students from 50 Boston-area colleges receive 11 percent discounts on semester-long subway and bus passes—but not Harvard undergraduates. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) offers the discount to all local colleges and universities, at no charge. Seven of Harvard’s graduate schools participate, but sadly, the College does not—apparently for no reason whatsoever...
...because I don’t want to tell the audience what they should think.” Perlman does reveal, however, that the story is based on “myself, my friends...every conversation on which I’ve ever eaves-dropped while riding the subway and a bunch of thoughts I wish...
Most Boston-area university students can ride the bus and subway at a discounted fare—most students, that is, with the exception of Harvard College students...
According to off-campus students, the discount would decrease the traveling costs accumulated by commuting from towns like Allston and Somerville, which have running bus and subway lines...
...PBHA programs are already cash-strapped, and we get pretty worried when we have to ask our volunteers to pay for their own subway fare, plus their mentee’s subway fare,” said Kimberely S. Mak ’05, who runs the PBHA tutoring program Best Buddies...