groovycutie06

Review of WWU

Posting as the spouse of a former professor and my...

Posting as the spouse of a former professor and myself as a former employee.

Parking on campus is a nightmare. If you re a guest, you have to prepay by the hour (which is currently $2 an hour, ridiculous!). One lot is so big that between walking from your car to the pay station, a pudgy parking enforcement officer could write a ticket before you get a chance to pay. I highly suggest taking the bus to campus. What I did was park near a blue line bus stop off campus (in areas where there is no parking enforcement) and ride the bus to campus. The catch is to find a spot early on before the street fills up with cars. Don t leave valuables in plain view in your car because someone will break into it, even during daylight hours. Or, walk to a bus stop near where you live. All of the routes meet at the downtown station and then you can transfer to a bus to campus.
Food on campus is expensive and gross. Bring your own food. During breaks, the campus is a ghost town. And yet, pudgy parking enforcement officers are still out on the hunt. The area surrounding campus is beautiful. You can see the bay from the viking union.
I like the fact that they send Western alerts by text and email. Sometimes the messages are ridiculous, such as the many cases of voyeurism. Campus police must have nothing better to do than look for a suspicious person masturbating outside someones window or in their own car.