Letter to a Friend

Dear Christa,

I have not seen you in such a long time. How have you been? How is college life at USF? Well as far as things around here I am loving it! My roommates are very nice and I have made so many new friends. I love everything about this campus except for one little thing. The parking! It is horrible. Parking here each day is like trying to find a spot at Disney World on a Saturday. The dorms I live in are called Lake Clair and we have our own special parking lot. Too bad only about half of the students cars actually fit in our designated parking lot. What does your school do about parking for the dorms on your campus? I know that here they are trying to improve the situation by adding overflow lots across the street from the dorms, but trying to cross the road on foot in the middle of the day….forget it! Sometimes when even the two overflow lots fill up, we have to park in a dirt parking lot across Greek Row ( The street with all the fraternity and sorority houses are ). The walk from there feels like its almost five miles! Don’t think I’m just lazy or something because I’m defiantly not the only one that complains. I even heard this one girl in my Psychology class say that she wanted to go to a different university just because she can never find a parking spot when she gets here. Now I’m not that upset about the parking I just really think something needs to be done about it. I think that they should build a parking garage near my dorms just so everyone that pays the ridiculous amount of $2,700 a semester for their dorm can park in a safe and secure area, not a dirt lot across a street.

I remember my good friend Billy was telling me about how he had a class at 11:00a.m. and he showed up on campus at ten o’clock just to get a parking spot so he wasn’t late to class. Guess what happened to him? It took him until noon to find a spot and he missed and hour of a class that only last an hour and a half. I just think its out of control around here. Also the campus police and parking enforcement are defiantly not my favorite. On the first day of school I received an e-mail saying parking violations do not start until the second week just so everyone could get used to their surroundings. The next morning I walked out to my car to find a big fat ticket under my wiper blade! I couldn’t believe it. I tried the whole appeal process online and I got rejected anyways. Now I am stuck with a $35 ticket that’s due in a week! The whole parking situation here is just very frustrating to me.

Well sorry for venting in my letter to you but I just had to get it out of my system. Please write back as soon as you get this and let me know how things are going for you. Talk to you soon!

Sincerely,

Colton Keller