Bringing a car to campus

Before you move to the dorms your freshman year you are told several times that you can not bring a car to college since you will not have a parking pass. Don’t let them scare you away from bringing a car. There are plenty of places to park a car.

I believed what I was told when I first came to Purdue, so I left my car at home. I realized that was a lie though. I went home got my car a couple of weeks after college started. I found that you really only want to take your car out of its parking place on the weekends though. If you take your car out at odd times when all the other spaces are full you can be stuck driving around for a while to find a space.

The most convenient place to park your car is on Waldron or Russel. These streets are located between the Windsor dorm and the Math building. Another place I parked my car when I was a freshman was on the other side of campus, the east side. This is the area past Northwestern Ave if you are coming from the dorms. About half of the parking over there is two hour parking and the other half has no time restrictions.

Another good thing to note is that if you want to take your car out on Friday and not put it back into street parking till Sunday you can. By the dorms you may have noticed that there are AB permit parking. Most of those spaces are only enforced Monday through Friday and only till 5PM.

Bringing a car to campus is really nice because then you do not have to rely on others to help you go shopping or go home. Also it will help keep you from having to take the bus just to go to Wal-Mart. It is also nice just to have the freedom to do what you want.