Pis.sed Off email time!

[Polyal]

Right well, went to uni today, and low and behold I copped a parking ticket. Now before I rant on, yes I knew that I was in the wrong zone, BUT it was pouring down with rain and the wind was high too.

Is Deakin in geelong the only place to charge uni students for parking? Just a rumour I heard.

This is absolute crap, I mean they do provide a free car park, but its up the top of a bloody hill, and is a good 10 min walk at a minimum from class. Now as it was raining I was not really keen to have a stroll in a shower.

So I parked in a permit zone that was atleast half empty anyway. From memory its $120 per year for a permit, or you pay $3.30 per day. Now Im full time, which means min I will be at uni 4 times a week, so $12 per week on parking.

What is our general servcie fee for? And what about thr $5k a year I pay in uni fees? And then we get slapped with $400 worth of just text books every semester aswell!!

And we are in Geelong, not bloody melbourne, if it ws melbourne fine, parking is a bugger, but out here, where the ONLY people who park there are students and teachers.

And then add ontop that alot of the students going to Geelong dont live there, or rent around the place so 90% of us are working casual jobs to keep on going aswell.

Know I know its only $63 bucks, but seriously, dont we pay enough as it is for the "privledge" of being there in the first place. Im sure the uni has its bills to pay but they must get enough from other sources.

So yeah, Im not happy, and before I shoot an email off I want to know if other uni's charge for parking at there hell-hole?

/rant

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