Being a commuter can save you thousands of dollars a year while you are in college. It lets you save the money that you’d be using if you lived on you college campus. In the long run, the positives outweigh the negatives that come along with being a commuter. If you’ve been commuting to and from campus for a semester, it doesn’t seem as bad as you once thought it was, but you haven’t really gotten to experience what it’s like to commute when the air becomes frigid and there's ice on the ground. Once winter hits, especially if you go to school in the Midwest, it seems like there are way too many negatives for you to deal with. Traffic already sucks when you are trying to get to your morning classes and find parking, then add on snow, traffic becomes down right ridiculous. You have to layer on the clothes, because you will have to make the trek through campus in the snow, ice, and negative wind chills just to get to your Letcher, which in fact will have the heat cranked up to where you feel like you are sitting inside of a sauna. Here are five thoughts every commuter has during the winter time.
1.“Why did I enroll for an 8 a.m. class?”
For the non-commuter student that seems like a bad idea, but for a commuter it’s Hell. We commuters don’t have the luxury of rolling out of bed twenty minutes before class and making it on time. No, we have to leave our houses, at least, two hours before our first class. We have to fight with morning traffic, and worse, finding parking on campus.
2.“IT’S JUST SNOW! YOU DON’T HAVE TO DRIVE THAT SLOW!”
Nothing is worse than the morning commute to your dreaded morning classes. But what’s even worse is Indiana drives in snow. It’s like they are back in drivers Ed classes all over again. Yes, I see the snow too, but guess what it’s not sticking to the ground yet, so that means you can go the speed limit.
3.“WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO PARK?”
If parking wasn’t already bad enough, just add some snow. Now you have to deal with the dumb people that must forget that you park in between two lines and not anywhere you please or think your car can fit.
4. “Use the cross walk!”
Yes, I understand that it’s really cold outside and the piles of snow are inconvenient to have to walk around, but would it take you that much longer to just use the cross walk? Noting is worse that cringing at students who decide just to cross the four-lane street without using the side walk. Is getting to tour dorm, car, or class worth the risk of getting hurt?
5. “I just want to take a nap.”
After dealing with morning traffic, finding parking, stupid people on campus, and your morning classes nothing seems better than taking a nap during your long break. But sadly you do not live close to camps and can’t go take that much-needed nap in your warm bed. You have three options, finding a chair on camps and risk someone taking a photo of you napping, going to your car and take a nap in the freezing cold, or be tired for the rest of the day.
