Well, the campus covers maybe two or three square miles. I'm not sure; there's parts of campus I've never had classes on so I haven't been there. I use the shuttle system for getting onto campus from the commuter parking lots*, and it's pretty good for that, but if you're living much off campus you'd have to walk to the nearest shuttle stop, at which point you'd be on campus already anyway. I think the average shuttle route takes twenty minutes, give or take about ten minutes. If you have a bike, I probably wouldn't bother with the shuttle. Some of the apartment buildings near campus have their own shuttles to and from campus, but a lot of those buildings are extremely overpriced. (The $495 rate you see advertised for places like the Lofts? It's per roommate.) I have an alright apartment in the Rosewood area for what it would cost me to share one of those apartments.
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