How to park considerately

The Advocate staff would like to think that one of our first and foremost concerns is to inform students of practices and day-to-day life on campus.

So, it’s with a heavy heart that we decided to address you about this issue – it’s everywhere now: Mass confusion, large crowds, and crosswalks that only lead straight into another curb.

We’re referring to the parking lots, of course. Luckily, due to MHCC’s low student retention rates, most of the year, especially Winter Term and the end of each term, this isn’t so much of a problem.

Right now is certainly the hardest time to navigate through the parking lot. One of the most immediate solutions is to use the back parking lot (newsflash: we have a back parking lot, reached off Stark Street).

If you haven’t figured it out yet, 10 a.m. is far too late to be hunting for a parking spot up front – it’s a myth at that point, and you’re only going to congest the front parking a lot more.

Also, most of the time, it’s quicker to walk to the buildings in the middle of the campus from the back parking lot, compared to the back of the front parking lot. DON’T stop coming in from the stoplight in the middle of campus, directly off Kane – there are some pretty big signs telling you what to do, but we wouldn’t be writing this if we hadn’t seen people hesitating and gumming up traffic.

As anyone who has ever been in an organized mosh pit can tell you: If someone falls over, help them up. Since our parking lot seems to be slightly less organized, avoiding knocking someone over in the first place is probably a better course of action.

We know the 30-minute parking slots look tempting – we’ve all been there. “I’ll will only be gone 40 minutes tops, right?” Please, fight your instincts: 30 minutes means 30 minutes. Besides, go big or go home, right? The MHCC board members are almost never parked here, anyway.

Advocate Staff