I'm a 1LE. I know folks who are commuting in from various parts of NJ, CT, and Long Island, but I can't say I've heard of anyone going an hour and a half each way. I think the most I've heard is an hour (and that's actually from the further reaches of Brooklyn). Your situation would require a lot of commitment.mbweissman wrote:
My work schedule is flexible - I'll be able to leave to make class, and I was hoping to do some reading on the train...
I'm concerned I might be living in a dream world in terms of the feasibility of the workload though. Realistically, how much time do you devote to reading / schoolwork on a given day?
But if you were EXTREMELY disciplined, I could see it work to do all of your reading on the train. It depends on your study schedule. Right now, I'm able to leave the office by 2 or 3 each day, and I do almost all my reading during the hours between the time I get to campus and the time class starts, plus a good 12-15 hours on the weekend. I've never NOT been able to read for class and be relatively fluent in the topic for the day.
Do keep in mind, though, that at certain points in the semester, you also have non-reading assignments you'll have to spend significant amounts of time working on (e.g. I spend about 30+ hours two weekends ago working on my long memo, since I could barely work on it during the week with work and regular class reading). That would be my major concern for someone like yourself trying to commute in...