Macalester’s neighborhood

Macalester is, I think, really well located because it's not directly in the middle of the city. So you're not, you know, dealing with bustling streets all the time. But you're also not really far away from all of that if you want to go there. And so Minneapolis and St. Paul, they're just a few miles away by uber, bus, train. Those systems are super easy to navigate as well. The area is super green, which is really nice. I love just going for walks. I also longboard. I like going around on my longboard, that's not too bad in this area. That also means that there's a lot of like families and stuff who come through campus. So you can see a lot of cute kids and dogs on campus, which I really like to. Right around Macalester, there's a lot of wonderful green space-- Up and down Summit Avenue, there's a walking path that leads to the river with the most beautiful outlooks. In the surrounding areas in Mac {INAUDIBLE] area. There's a street, the same one that Mac is on. It's called Grande and you just kind of traveled down there by a bus or car. And there's a ton of different restaurants and little sweet treat shops that you can go to, and you can be back on campus within 15 minutes, if you need to be. There's lots of coffee places all within like two minutes of campus. There's a bunch of great food options for like breakfast, lunch and dinner. There's a mix of like kind of pricey places and also really cheap food if that's what you need at like three in the morning-- and it's all walkable, which is so great. I feel very safe walking to and from campus, not only from the dorms when I did live there, but also now that I live in an apartment. It's really easy. I'm a 10 minute walk away, and I feel very safe in the neighborhood, and I feel that the neighborhood is looking out for Macalester students as well.