When Tufts University sophomore Teighlor Bonner looked at her school during the application process, visiting Boston was not advertised as something students did frequently, she said in an email.

“It was actually framed as an ‘option’ rather than something that everyone did on the weekends,” she said. “I remember being told that being close to the city was nice and provided a lot of opportunities for adventures and traveling.”

Bonner said although she tries to travel into the city often, it is not something her friends do regularly.

“I try to go into the city every weekend, or at least twice a month, but it’s certainly not the norm for my friends,” she said. “I always take the subway into the city and I’ve never taken a bus into Boston.”

Bonner said when she goes into the city, she typically visits Boston Common, Newbury Street and the North End.

Boston University College of Communication freshman Emilia Johnson said she goes to places such as the North End, Boston Common, Quincy Market, Copley Square or Newbury Street by taking the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.

“I travel around the city every chance I get,” she said. “One of my best friends goes to Suffolk [University], so I meet up with her downtown and we explore the city.”

But Johnson said some areas of the city are still confusing, and she has yet to learn how to travel on the other lines of the T system.

“The Financial District gets me quite confused and I pretty much only know how to use the Green Line,” Johnson said.

Emerson College sophomore Nicky Maggio said he traveled around the city a lot as a freshman, especially when classes were canceled.

“For me it wasn’t a huge deal because I am from the area, but for my friends not from Boston or Greater Boston, exploring the city was a huge thing to do freshman year,” Maggio said. “Now that we’re sophomores and [have] been here for four semesters, its not as big of a deal.”

During freshman year, Maggio went to the North End, Faneuil Hall and Newbury Street for day trips and Allston, Jamaica Plain and Brighton for house parties, he said.

“Nowadays, I go to the South End because it’s more sophisticated, less commercial and more homey, which I love,” Maggio said. “I’ll be living there next year.”

Steve Blair, store manager for the bakery Sweet on Massachusetts Avenue, said the store there does many deliveries in and around the Boston area, going as far as Chestnut Hill to Boston College.

“I would say that we get quite a bit of college sales and business,” Blair said. “The Boston-Cambridge area is the most frequent [delivery area] as well as the Brookline and Chestnut Hill areas.”

Drew Keating, store manager of clothing store 344 on Newbury Street, said since the store is situated on a well-known street in Boston, many customers are either middle-aged women or college students from schools inside the city.

“We get customers between 18 and 25 [years old], primarily college students being from the city, not necessarily from outside the city,” Keating said. “Boston College, Emerson College, Bay State College. . . . We also see a lot from the Wellesley area as well.”

But for restaurants such as Code 10, located in the South End and accessible by the MBTA Silver Line or the Orange Line, competing with popular areas such as Newbury Street may not be easy.

Nicholas Tsoubanas, Code 10 manager, said the restaurant serves people from Tufts Medical Center and Boston Medical Center, as well as BU students, security guards and police.

But Tsoubanas said he sees students, especially international students, pass by multiple times and then come in and say they did not know the restaurant was there.

“There is a lot of traffic going towards the bus stops, but I don’t know if it helps or not,” he said. “What I know, though, that doesn’t help is that we don’t have parking spaces here, so a lot of students, even if they have their own transportation, they’re not coming in here [due to] the parking.”

Tufts University senior Amanda Bell said although she likes to come into Boston sometimes, she likes that she goes to a school outside the city.

“I love the fact that I can go into Boston whenever I want,” Bell said, “and then I can come back to our quiet, little campus and feel at home.”