Parking woes

JILLIAN MILAM STAFF WRITER JGM726@CABRINI EDU

If you are a living, breathing student here at Cabrini, chances are you have experienced the frustrations and idiotic situation of the parking spots, or lack thereof, and regulations that take place here.

It is evident that the new parking lot in Founder ’s Hall is nice and pretty, but not helpful to the majority of students here. There is still chaos in the lots, and simply just not enough room. Although I am a resident, I had reasons the week of Sept. 10 for having to drive to school for one class, just to turn around and drive back home afterwards.

It was 9 a.m. on a Friday morning. Giving myself an extra 30 minutes to get to school early, I figured I would be arriving with plenty of time to maybe even pick up a cup of chai from the Jazzmen’s Café.

However, these plans of mine were crushed as I made the turn onto Germantown Pike. With dead-stop traffic for miles, all hope of making my 10:55 a.m. class dwindled as I saw not even a spec of the huge, green sign that reads 476 S., the exit in which I must get off.

After an excruciatingly painful and aggravating stopand-go car ride to school, I pulled into the Cabrini entrance with a sense of panic as I looked at my watch that annoyingly blinked 11:10 a.m.

I drove to the back of