It’s any given day this semester when your twenty-minute commute to school took you forty-five minutes due to the weather, which means it’s now 8:45 am and you are pulling into the parking lot at Rock Valley College from Spring Brook Road. If you wake up a few minutes past your alarm or hit snooze a few times, there may as well be a foot of snow on the ground, because the wait to pull into RVC is several minutes long! There is a good chance that you’ll be doing “the walk of shame” by running into your 9 A.M. class late, completely frazzled and frustrated. Because parking at Rock Valley College this semester is hideous.
If you have class in the Jacobs Center Science-Math building, you can forget parking anywhere near there. Students feel the need to create their own parking space sometimes, because 
parking in certain areas is almost impossible. If your first class starts mid-morning, you should plan on spending an extra twenty minutes to drive around and wait for someone to leave or you’ll more than likely need to park in lot 9 behind one of the faculty parking area, in front of Classroom Building II.
I respect the faculty here at Rock Valley. The instructors put in a tremendous amount of effort into their lectures and most go above and beyond to help students achieve academic success. 
They’re part of what makes this school great, so I completely understand faculty having a designated parking area. What I don’t understand is wasting valuable parking real estate.
Perhaps RVC could assign faculty personal parking spaces by seniority. The institution knows how many employees they have and could divide the right number of spaces needed for them. Maybe there is a way to make those parking areas adjustable by making those yellow barriers moveable on a semester-by-semester basis. 
That would free up extra parking for students while still providing a separate parking area for faculty.
I’m in my fourth semester here at RVC, and I don’t recall parking ever being so competitive. I don’t mind parking in the very last space near the building my class is in, but it is ridiculous that I may need to park in the very last space, three buildings away from where I need to be, and only then walk through a nearly empty parking lot to do so.
