It has become tradition for Sinclair Community College students to face parking headaches the first few weeks of classes.
Liz Stefan, a first-year transfer student from Toledo, commuted from Kettering for her first day at Sinclair Community College. The 20-year-old Clinical Psychology major expected packed parking lots on Sept. 9.
“I figured it would be pretty busy, so I left my house an hour early,” Stefan said.
After following the trail of her fellow cars on the road, Stefan found a spot right away in Building 13’s lot.
Other students were not as lucky. Erin Jones, 30, said she had an awful time finding a spot on the first day of school.
“I had to circle the school three times and finally we got parking in the overflow area,” she said.
Jones, a business major, said she arrived two hours before her class started and still found it difficult to find a spot.
First-year student Callie Kennard went straight to Welcome Stadium to park without giving the parking garage or overflow lot a try on the first day of class.
“As long as the shuttles are on time and everything then I’m totally fine with it,” Kennard said.
With the obvious rise in student enrollment for fall classes at Sinclair, parking seems to be a popular problem with the college’s commuters. Some students expect the parking to ease up in the upcoming weeks, but 33-year-old student Chris Atkins feels that with the increase of students coming to Sinclair may cause a continuing problem with parking on campus.
“With a 30 percent increase in enrollment, I think it might make a big difference whether parking is going to (open up) in the next two weeks like it usually does or not,” Atkins said. “It makes you kind of wonder.”