By Rocco Colella

Monday’s snowstorm brought back not-so-fond memories of last month’s blizzard for commuter students once again faced with the task of trudging to campus.

And for some students living off campus who have said they feel frustrated by the way Northeastern treats a large majority of its student population, it was the icing on the cake.

“Teachers should respect the fact that it might be hard for commuters to get to Boston due to the weather,” said Kristen Smyth, a senior speech language pathology and audiology major.

Smyth, who usually drives 45 minutes to Northeastern from Norfolk, said she is aggravated that her teachers assume most of the students in their classes live in the residence halls or in off-campus apartments close by.

“There are more commuters than one would think,” she said.

Before Northeastern turned itself into a mostly residential campus, the university existed primarily as a commuter school, with parking lots on the current site of West Village and an even busier Green Line stop on Huntington Avenue.

Students who continue to commute said they feel neglected by Northeastern and said the university is trying to shake its reputation as a “commuter school,” in effect ignoring the needs of a sizable portion of students.

A group has been formed on The Facebook called “Commuter Commune.” The group is made up of 35 members, who travel to Northeastern from communities such as Brookline, Stoughton and Danvers.

“When decisions need to be made about school cancelations/inclement weather, my understanding is that Facilities Services makes those decisions along with the President’s Office. Our office wouldn’t really play a role in that decision,” said Marina Iannalfo, dean of Housing Services.

She said that, to her knowledge, no complaints from commuter students had been made to her office in Speare Commons.

Off-Campus Student Services, a division of the Center for University Life, is an option available to students who are not living in university-owned property. The service is meant to help students deal with everything from finding housing to mapping out routes to campus.

Middler graphic design major Christopher Cerrato also commutes to Northeastern from Norfolk and said he is not going to let the university pocket his money.

“My family is saving around $10,000 a year by me commuting from home,” said Cerrato, who travels by way of the MBTA commuter rail. “Northeastern’s policies toward anything in finance are ‘Once we have your money, we’re not giving it back to you.'”

Other commuters have a different outlook on the commuting process.

Since her freshman year, middler physics major Colleen Crowley has been driving to Northeastern to attend classes and, for as long as she has been commuting, she has been having problems.

“I’ve just gotten used to it,” she said.

Crowley said during her freshman and sophomore years, she would have class around noon and she could never find parking spaces. Now, she said, she schedules classes as early as 8 a.m. so she can “get prime spots.”

One of the more constant problems, Cerrato said, is the lack of communication the university has when it comes to its commuters, especially when classes are canceled.

“It seems that you have to hear about canceled classes through the grapevine; it’s never announced for everyone to hear,” he said.