re: LSU oversold parking passes, and even ran out of passes

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Stop raising weak arse kids

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Gotta be the softest freshman class of all time. Imagine being an adult in college and calling your parents crying because you can’t find a freaking parking space.

Parking wars are a universal part of the college experience and have been for decades now. Plan accordingly.

I lived on S Brightside. Had a car but rode a mountain bike to class. Bus when it was pouring. Very rarely drove to campus.

White people problems

I graduated in the early ‘90s and it was the exact same way back then. As the others say, it will smooth out after a couple of weeks and she’ll get set in her routine as well. You are rarely able to park outside of the building your class is within.

Honestly, this is a part of the college education….you don’t call your parent crying every time you meet an obstacle in life. Instead, you figure out a way to deal with it.

Incidentally, the first time she leaves with her car tire touching a white line in the parking lot, she will receive a parking ticket. She will take pictures with her phone, send it to you, and call crying again. Your response should simply be “handle it.”

Those look like guns.

LSU has a parking app. It's called ParkZen and provides real time data on open spots.

My daughter used it for her last year at LSU. She still had to be on campus ~45 minutes before class.

I never got a parking pass after sophomore year. I just parked in the CEBA lot and if I got less than like 4 tickets in a year or whatever I came out ahead.



It worked. I think I got 2 or 3 tickets in 2 years parking without a pass in CEBA every day.

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I'm sorry but LSU is looking sloppy right now.

For all the folks calling this girl soft, maybe she shouldn't be crying, but LSU is not being run correctly and not living up to flagship status.

If they oversold parking passes, shame on them. Come clean and admit it.

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Define “overselling” parking passes.

Or to put it another way, what would be the “correct” amount of parking passes to sell?

Should every student with a commuter pass be able to park on campus at the same time? If that were the case, you’d have empty parking spaces all over the place even during peak hours because every single student with a commuter pass isn’t on campus at the same time.

Do you think they should take every student’s class schedule into account? E.g. only allotting x passes to kids who have M/W/F classes between 8 and 10 AM? What about class location? If someone’s classes are all near the North side of campus but the only projected parking availability at those times is on the south side of campus, should the student be denied a pass?

This is silly. A commuter pass is not a guarantee that there will be parking available in the lot of your choice, at the time of your choice. At the beginning of every single fall semester, a bunch of incoming freshmen realize that parking on campus is a PITA. And every year, students figure it out eventually. Some will leave earlier. Some will walk or ride bikes. Some will ride the bus. Some will carpool. Some will park farther away when they figure out that their ideal lot fills up early. None of this is new. It’s been happening for at least 15-20 years.

LSU needs more parking, no doubt. But all of this “omg LSU looks so bad and needs to come clean about overselling parking passes” talk is pointless without any further context other than.. the same shite that happens every year. The difference today has as much to do with helicopter parents on social media as it does with LSU.

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This was the reason I generally had 7:30 class. Parking was easy.

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My last 2 years my first class always started at 7:30 or 8:30 am. Guess what, parking was not only easy, but I would usually get a great spot.