Commuting to Holy Cross every day can be a constant battle for some Holy Cross students and faculty. For some students, like Adore Bryant and Isabel Wong, this daily routine is a well-oiled machine, while for others, it is a constant changing never settling routine.
Bryant is a senior at the Academy and is the picture of consistency in her morning routine.
“I’ve been in my routine for so long, I’m just very used to it,” she shared.
Bryant’s commute is rather simple, she drives herself and her sister, and her sister is the unofficial time keeper in their house making sure they are both up and ready to go at the right time. Their system has worked perfectly for years; she is rarely ever late to school unless she has an appointment or other more important engagements. The only improvement she would make would be to shorten the line in the Holy Cross driveway, or at least have all the cars stay to the left so she could make her way past them and have easier access to her usual parking spot.
Almost completely opposite is Wong, a junior, with a very different routine every morning. Living only five minutes away from school, Wong’s proximity to campus should make her commute a breeze. However, since she relies on her father for rides and he cannot always take her, it leaves her with a lot of room for error.
“ I just don’t like having to rely on others to get to school, I just want to be able to take myself.” Isabel said about her unstable routine.
When Wong’s dad leaves the house before her, she has no choice but to walk to school and that last minute decision often can lead to her tardiness. To make her commute to school easier, she would make the weather nice every morning, in case she needs to walk to school.
Patricia Petruzzelli, a theology teacher, plans her morning commute so she is alwayss one of the first people in the building.
“it’s better to be 10 minutes early than even one minute late,” she explained.
Petruzelli lives by that phrase her mother instilled in her at a very young age. She wakes up as early as 5:45 most days with her husband before driving herself to work every morning, which typically takes 17 minutes without any traffic. To avoid any possible delays , like traffic that can add 15 minutes to her commute, Petruzelli tries to leave early to make sure she gets to school with plenty of time before the day begins. Despite her nearly perfect commutes in the morning, if she could change one thing about her route to school, it would be to make drivers more focused behind the wheel and less distracted.
