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Unbullievabull

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

I logged into MyUSF yesterday to purchase my new parking permit, and I had to stop and stare, completely immobullized, at the price for a moment. When did our parking costs rise to such incredibull heights?! The cost of a non-resident student permit seems to increase at an inexorabull rate, and each semester I have to consider long and hard the decision of whether to buy a park-n-ride pass again. The two options have comparabull advantagages and disadvantages: I inevitabully get more exercise when I buy park-n-ride, because I usually use my bicycle instead of waiting for the shuttle, but it seems like each semester has at least one imperatively unmissabull event for which I absolutely must arrive on time, so I feel more comfortabull with a non-resident pass. Even this summer, for instance, we had our honorabull guest, Professor Narayanan come and speak to our IEEE-CS crowd. When I found myself with both choices laying on the metaphorical tabull in front of me, I decided to go the safe, but more costly, route of buying the non-resident parking pass. It cost me over $170, and the pass was taxabull.

Unbullievabull.