Driving 1.5-2 hours to university, yes or no?
I currently live exactly 152km from the university, and by train it would take me 8 hours a day, 4 hours there and 4 hours back, and trains aren't reliable either. I'm trying to find a suitable apartment there and even had a viewing today, but the train is canceled, so it was another bad idea.
According to the navigation, by car it would take 1 hour and 30 minutes via the motorway and if you avoid motorways then 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Now my question:
• Should I stay with my parents and buy a car to drive to university instead of moving?
Ps: If I were to move, my train and bus journey times would range from about 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes.
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I always had to commute approx. 125km. Although there was a residential home, it was quite down, and up to the school you needed almost 1 1/2h, as if I were driving from home by car.
From home, I would have used 2 1/2 – 3 1/2h by train.
I felt driving the car was always very relaxed, more relaxed than driving actually…
However:
you mention train failures and delays. How often do they come before compared to traffic jams, weather-related disabilities and locks when driving by car, as well as breakdown by car? And how are the costs (sprit, insurance, taxes, winter equipment, parking fees, penance, etc.)?
But, in other words, I’ll explain that you’re not going to stay through this pendulum. On the train you may still be able to read or prepare (not in the car), but it does not weigh up anyway. It is not all evacuated in stone, so also a cheap room in a suburb would suffice. And after a few months, if you’ve been oriented and met other students, you can move again.
believe me every day and make a couple of weeks, then you have the fun
in front of all the time that goes on the time that you only get in the car after the time is simply annoying, and if then a stow is then you get even more excited.
the long journey times also make very tired, then you want to go home and actually have rest thinking but again next day you get up so early again at 1.30 hours to go home and then go home again
also uni had to learn, etc.
First of all, I would see if the SEMESTER becomes an online semester or flexi or pure presence semester.
You save the rides on online semesters.
At Flexi too. Only with presence you would have to go.
But since you don’t have to attend any lecture/seminar, it would be more appropriate to watch what you want to visit. Then, for example, one would only go to university once a week.
In general, you do not have to attend any lecture/seminar.
It’s different for seminars to be held.
However, as I said, inform you if it becomes a pure online semester or not
Let’s say you’re an average of 3.5x a week in university, making 1.064km a week and 4.256km a month.
The year has 30 lecture weeks, so you could get to 127,680km a year.
It’s surprising to me that you can’t even scramble such a bill as a prospective student…
Where does the assumption come from? From Corona times when a lot of things happened remotely?
the normal course (which includes lectures, seminars and personal individual work) happens on 5.0 days. Yes, it may be 4.5 days, or even 6.1 days on Saturday… But on 3 1/2 weekdays, I have rarely come to a real lecture.
So I can normally plan my semesters so that I am at least at 4, usually at 3 days a week at university. Days are then a bit full but easily possible. There are no events with us on Fridays (because the professors/dozens themselves don’t have a bock…) and on Saturday I never had anything in all these years…
But six times a week? I don’t know and my friends don’t…you can overdo it.
Pure task:
Stay with parents, save rent – but have the driving costs + driving time (no matter whether by car or train)
You move, you have the rent, but save driving costs and time.
Why are you getting away cheaper?
I’d move.
By car you would have 300 km back and back every day and at least 3 hours of time per day.
At today’s prices, I would exclude that.
It’s not worth it at all. Just find a WG room.
Where’s the university?