No Car On Campus Question

GKUnion
Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:22:30 +0000

To the OP, there is always a way to bring your car to campus. Read the school’s official written policy. The one at my son’s school started with, “As a general rule…”. It didn’t take long to identify an exception to their general rule. They don’t make it easy but it can be done.

That being said, to someone else’s point, if you’re not comfortable telling people no, a car on campus can be a headache. My son is very independent and strong willed. Having his truck made him more popular than he might have been otherwise, but he definitely rubbed some people the wrong way when they asked him to drive them places and he said no.

When he saw kids taking the bus to Walmart for cases of water and bags of supplies for their rooms he was very glad he had his truck. He also joined Club Golf so he was able to bring other freshman and sophomore golfers to the course. It was fun to be able to grab friends from his floor and head over to Buffalo Wild Wings occasionally too.

My wife’s parents live an hour north from his school. My son would drive his truck to their house and they would drive him the additional hour to the airport to fly home for breaks.

For my son, having his truck has been 100% positive. For us the only negative is the car insurance.