As an NJIT alum it was a good school. Many years ago when I was there you could actually take classes and dual enroll in both schools, not sure if they allow it anymore but you could tack on concentrations from Rutgers to your major from NJIT (probably worked in reverse too). Guess it depends what you’re after. Do you want to live in a dorm and have the ‘college’ experience? Then it’s probably Rutgers. I was a commuter kid who worked 8 hours and then took 4 nights of night classes + some online classes in Newark so college social scene was non existent to me.

It’s honestly just the way it is. I lived in Jersey city 7 years and needed to commute to union county. It’d take me 20 min to get the 2 mi out of Jersey city and 20 min to go the other 17. Just the way it works.

On a train they’d probably give you a problem. They now have barcodes on them so the other day on a train someone tried to use one without a barcode. The conductor wouldn’t take it and said they’d have to go in a station with someone and get a new one replaced