There are some positives, some negatives and some in-betweens involved in having your own car on campus, but I believe the positives far outweigh the negatives.
For some of us, this is our first time away from home, and we love it. We love the freedom and the excitement, yet without a car we would only be able to experience about half of that freedom.
Another top-notch aspect of having a vehicle is that you can make all the late night Taco Bell runs you need, and then run to the bathroom also. Not having to walk through the frozen tundra of campus to reach the Science Building is a big benefit, too.
Of course, there are some negatives too. If you have a car, your friends will always be asking you to drive them somewhere, no matter what hour of the day it is. Every now and then is okay, but it can get overwhelming pretty quickly depending on how many trips to WalMart your friends have to make in a week.
Then there are also the DPS guys walking around, putting those little pieces of paper in the yellow envelopes under your windshield wiper. As much as it may ruin someone’s day to get a ticket, they do it for a reason. It would be a lot worse if everyone parked wherever they wanted to and every parking lot was a mad scramble.
Those are about the only two negatives I can come up with, and there are plenty of other positives where those came from, so having a car on campus is definitely the right way to live.
