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If you ever see this woman on the train, offer her your seat. In their ongoing Extreme Commuter series, amNewYork follows Tameeka Henry's 2 to 5 day/week travels from Brooklyn to Dix Hills, Long Island. The 21-year-old student attends Five Towns College there, and while it's only about 30-something miles from her Brooklyn home, it takes about four hours each way. Four hours. Maybe that 3.9 GPA can be partially attributed to all of that forced study time. She "takes a dollar van, a city bus, the subway, two Long Island Rail Road trains and a Suffolk County bus to get to and from school. Sometimes she catches a ride to classes, but either way, she still has to leave her house at 6:45 a.m. to get to school on time." What's all that cost? $26. Luckily, she graduates in May. [via NYMag]