Parking Dilemma

Have you ever driven around the sprawling campus of Utah Valley University searching for a place to park? Well, chances are that after driving around aimlessly for 15 minutes you finally find an empty space, but discover that you have to have a pass to park there. Because a parking pass is quite expensive, you decide that you will take the bus to school since it costs only $5 for an unlimited pass (or so you think). You stand in another long line to buy a bus pass, but when you finally reach the front, they tell you that the price is no longer $5 but $25. You decide that paying $25 isn’t worth it because a pass for parking on campus costs pretty much the same.
You check the other options, and decide that you are going to park in the lot that is free and has a shuttle bus that will drop you off right by the main campus building. The only problem is that you still need a pass to park there. You walk once again to One Stop to get a pass but unfortunately notice that it closed at 5:00. Because you take evening classes you don’t know when you will be able to purchase a pass. You then decide that you will purchase a pass online. You go to the website to apply for one and notice that your pass won’t arrive in the mail for at least a week. If you wait until then you will risk getting many expensive parking tickets when parking in the free lot. Frustrated, you finally decide that you are just going to have your parents, roommate, friends, or whoever you can talk into it, drive you and pick you up from school – at least until I can obtain my free pass. Resolving my parking issue is the main problem that I am facing as a student at Utah Valley University.

Am I too smart, or am I too dumb for my own good?

So this is my first year at UVU. I had recently taken the placement test which landed me in Intermediate Algebra. The unfortunate thing is that since it has been over 10 years since I finished my last math class as a senior in high school, i have forgotten alot. My professor also speaks AND writes 7.2 to the second power times faster than I can think, and I am so lost! When I took the placement test for math, I guessed on 96.333% of the multiple choice answers, even on the arithmatic section. And still I recieved a high enough score to enter Math 1010, due to my superb skills in deductive reasoning on multiple choice tests. That is a very bad thing; I wish that I would have failed miserably! You see, the army is paying for my schooling and giving me a cost of living allowance of $1050/mo. If I drop my class, I will lose my fulltime status and my $1050 a month stipend. It is also too late to add any classes. I wish I would have done crappy on the placement test, taken a history class instead of math this semester, and saved up money to pay for prerequisites in math during spring or summer semester(as the army doesn't pay for prereqs). HELP!!!
This topic is important because there must be other people who are over their heads. I wonder how many people out there pass the multiple choice exams in school, graduate, get out into the real world, and then don't really have a clue. It would be like cheating your way through med school to become a docter. Pretty scary.

Student Center Solicitation

Picture this...you're walking down the Liberal Arts building hall, you pass PE classrooms, you go through that tunnel with all the glass windows, your eyes are set on the path before you and you are determined to get wherever it is that you're going. Finally you arrive at the Student Center, "the mothership" if you will, and you're spotted. All the people in their little booths have been waiting for you, what do they want you ask? They want to sell you stuff. They want you to join every club on the face of the earth, and they won't take no for an answer. You could be the most spineless student meandering down the hall, or look as terrifying as an escapee with a knife, and they still come after you. I find as a UVU student that it's a problem that every time I wander the halls of the Student Center my irritability is significantly increased. I realize they're trying to support things they enjoy, or raise money for a good cause, but do they seriously need to chase me all the way down the hall asking if I'm sure? I was sure the first time I said no, so please leave me alone. Student Center Solicitation...I do not enjoy it.

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