This past weekend, the New York Times magazine was organized around the theme of environmentalism. One of the articles discussed the tremendous impact that walking can have on one's carbon footprint. Within that article, I came across an intriguing website that I suspect might be useful to future NUSL students who are relocating to Boston. It's called Walk Score and you can access it here. The gist of the site is that you enter an address and it then returns a "walkability" score, which give you a sense of how realistic car-free (and, by extension, carefree) living is. The scale runs from zero to one hundred. My current address, I'm proud to say, gets a ninety-seven! This score translates into "Walkers' Paradise: Most errands can be accomplished on foot and many people get by without owning a car." For students coming into Boston, especially with no or limited access to a car, I would recommend using Walk Score (and also considering the commute time to and from NUSL) to evaluate housing.