Well, my friends, it turns out the parking situation is much more dire than I first suspected. The lot closed is the largest lot near school and holds several hundred spaces. Worse yet, there are no plans to reopen it, as the university has decided to build student housing in its place. (I think my university might be attempting to make a shift from nice, personal, reasonably-priced, community-serving school to impersonal, over-charging national prestige whore. Here's hoping they fail miserably.)
This has caused quite a mess in the parking department (as a street running right in front of the law building has been closed as well) and students, without any alternatives, are parking on the grass, on the curbs, and sometimes even in the roadways. One of the deans sent out a pleading email yesterday asking that we park in the designated, marked spaces. Dear Dean, we would love to – if only marked, designated spaces were made available to us.
As a result, my schedule is somewhat disrupted and today I drove to school several hours early in order to avoid any major complications. The good news is, I’ve read over sixty pages of law-crap, no small feat considering that my daily reading has been a little off-on given that this is the first semester I’ve tried to coordinate school and job. So, the parking situation, while nasty, may in fact help my GPA. The downside? Who wants to bet that I go home this afternoon to find one peeved little dog?
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Should be illegal to sell parking decals when there is no parking. A decal is a guarantee of a space somewhere on some campuses. Maybe you could make a case for breach of contract! *tease*
I believe we are at the same school. I've resorted to the full-blown stalker method. Waiting for people to emerge from class and then scarily slow-driving behind them to their parking space. It's mildly disturbing I'm sure, but working so far.
I'm pretty sure we go to the same school too; the past two days I'v resorted to illegally parking. The parking situation is chaotic! My eyes were in disblief the other day - I saw a man trying to get his suv off of a truck that he had parked on (his front left tire was on the truck's hood).
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