Spring break is here and for most college students in Texas, that means partying hard in South Padre or catching up on their well-deserved sleep to prepare for the second half of the semester. For Sam Houston State University students, it means fretting over parking, the new changes coming and wondering if their usual parking lot will be the same.

It's no surprise to anyone that parking on a college campus is a huge mess, especially if there is constantly new and old construction going on. Just recently, Sam Houston State University started working on new "parking projects."

In the last two years, several two-way streets have turned into one-way streets with on-street parking. For $1 an hour, max $5, you can park on campus without a parking pass. If you have a parking pass, you will still have to pay the on-street fee because it is under the City of Huntsville's eye and not the university's.

If you wish to park in a zone that you already pay for, but it is full-- do not fret. There will be pay by the hour spots newly opening after Spring Break. No, your current parking pass that you paid $180 for won't cover the charge for it. You will have to shell out even more money to the university just to park in the zoned parking that you have already paid for. Isn't that neat?

The week before Spring Break, they decided to close and block certain parking lots without telling the students. My roommate, who constantly parks in both parking lots affected by these changes, said, "I pay [Sam Houston] over $15,000 per year for a $200 parking spot that I can't even find anymore."

This inconvenience is not only irritating to current students, but prospective students as well. With tours going on daily, there is hardly room for prospective students and parents to park on campus because of the construction.

Construction is good because of the benefits it will eventually bring to our ever-growing campus, but when is the time to finally take a step back and look at all the issues it is causing.

Is it truly worth it?