BC Nursing Students Face Early Mornings and Costly Commutes for Required Clinicals

Noelle Lyden starts her Tuesdays at 5:30 a.m., long before the sun rises.

She takes a 6 a.m. bus through a quiet campus, down Commonwealth Avenue, and to the Reservoir T stop. From there, she spends nearly an hour on the D line, riding it to the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, where she arrives at Brigham and Women’s Hospital just in time for her 7 a.m. clinical experience.

“In the morning, it’s really tough,” Lyden, CSON ’28, said. “Getting up at like 5:30 … it’s the worst thing ever.”…

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