Michigan State - Go Green, Go White! Best school around: fact. Best parking system around, too. Here's a list of my most favorite features in our parking lots!
1. I love when you have to pay $.90 an hour to park at IM West to workout. Like you have to pay to go sweat. That seems like the ideal way to encourage strong, habitual, athletic habits.
2. I love when your meter runs out and .00000009 second later, you have a parking ticket. And when you see the parking police pulled up next to your car and you sprint across lawns and roads at the speed of a young cheetah to try to save yourself $40, but you don't quite make it. Good cardio training, bad luck.
3. I love when you pay hundreds of dollars for a commuter parking pass for a semester, because I don't know about you, but I have literally nothing else I'd rather spend money on. Not tuition, not meal passes, not my rent or groceries or anything. I have always looked forward to making money that I can spend on parking spots.
4. I love when those commuter parking passes are on the very edge of campus. It's in these moments that I'm so thankful that our campus encompasses over a mile radius. But mostly, it's in these moments that I'm most grateful for the train that runs directly throughout the center of it. It all really adds to the suspense of making it to lecture 15 to 25 minutes late.
5. I love when there are home football games, you probably should go park down by the capital and take a hike because you aren't getting anywhere near Spartan Stadium. Not even close.
6. I love when people come to visit you in the dorms, and you don't really have a great option for them. Like you can keep putting in quarters every hour in the circle drive overnight and park there? It really encourages those long-distance relationships.
But then again, the parking system at Michigan State is going to save the earth someday. I have never desired the option of biking and walking as much as I do when I think about the obstacle course my car has to leap through in order to take me places. Saving the ozone layer one parking ticket to a poor college student at a time. Spartans Will.
