Eh, welcome to college.
I finally got my parking fees at UC-Davis down to zero. I did this by the simple expedient of attending a church less than two blocks from the campus and parking my automobile in the church parking lot. From there, I would ride my bike, my inline skates, or my trikke clone to campus.
My big shock was the difference between the parking fees at the university and the community college I attended prior. 75 cents for the junior college and five dollars at the university for the daily parking permit.
Maybe the dorms have restricted parking.
I’m a faculty member at a middling private school in a middling city in the middle of the USA and I pay >$800 a year to park. We used to be able to park on the street until the “U” had the city put up parking meters with 2 hr limits. Yeah, it’s all about adumacation here.
Liberal arts major?
Wouldn’t the buss be first? But to each his own.
I was going to guess MD student who hoped to be a transplant surgeon.
:dubious: With reading comprehension like this, may I suggest you get to school say about 3 hours early to study, or this will become a self correcting problem. Flunking out of college = no college parking problem.
So perhaps you are incorrect in assuming that the dorm residents are the main cause of the parking problem. Or perhaps the dorms are also short on parking space, and many dorm residents are parking in the main school parking lot overnight, not driving from the dorms every morning.
OK, so I went to college in the early 80s ( :eek: ) at a small state school in Arkansas. Parking was definitely at a premium there, too. We had different parking stickers for On- and Off-Campus students. On-campus students could park in Dorm parking lots, but nowhere else. Off-campus students could park in classroom building parking lots, the student center, library, etc., but not in dorm parking lots. They handed out parking tickets to those who parked in the wrong lot. They weren’t cheap, either.
IMHO, the obvious solution (for all but the terminally obtuse and college administrators) is to give different parking passes to on and off-campus students, and don’t let people who live on campus park in the lot (except for handicapped folks, of course). I find it hard to believe that this simple and obvious solution has not occurred to your college administrators, when it was already successfully adopted at a cow college 25 freakin’ years ago.
BTW, I don’t get out much. Junior colleges have dorms?
I ran into the same thing when I went back to college as a commuter. I found there were some bars around campus that rented space during the day for a pretty reasonable monthly fee. It was a little farther to walk, but after the long walk back I could have a beer! Any chance of that working for you?
Leave your home earlier? Silly, I know, but hey, it worked for me when that darn downtown traffic made me late to work.
Why should someone living in the dorms have to demonstrate a need for a space just to make things more convenient for you?
Leave earlier, or move to the dorms.
I think that car needs power steering or something. Those wheels turn s l o w l y…