Having A Car In University

How important is having a car while studying at the University of Alberta?

In most regular programs, it is not at all important. If you are conducting research and have to get out to the farm in the far south (south of Ellerslie Road), or need to go to the campus in Camrose for some odd reason, a car might be useful. But students get discounted transit, the university area is a hub for transportation from all over the city, buses run until late at night in the university area, and there is easy transport between the main campus, downtown, Faculté Ste Jean, and the old farm. A friend who lived in Spruce Grove when I was at the U of A had parking, but her assigned lot was two bus-stops and a long cross-campus hike from our faculty. Eventually she would drive to West Edmonton Mall, park there, and take the bus to campus.If you live in Edmonton, it's expensive and unnecessary to have a car.

I'm going to school at Columbia University. Where can I park my car?

Of course it's really expensive to keep a car in the city, but not impossible near Columbia.  Students aren't usually eligible for 24-hour parking through the university (http://facilities.columbia.edu/o...), but there are a number of privately owned lots nearby:http://facilities.columbia.edu/p...Honestly, though, if you're not traveling much and willing to put in the time to deal with the alternate side parking rules (see http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html...), street parking is a reasonable possibility.  There's a lot of parking available on Riverside Drive, especially as you go slightly north of campus.  The real annoyance is having to move your car for street cleaning, probably at least 2-3x a week.If you're not planning on using your car very often, you can probably find a cheaper lot or garage in one of the outer boroughs or somewhere accessible by train, like Metropark, NJ.

Stanford University: Is it worth having a car if you live on campus?

I disagree with Trevor. I only got a car near the end of my 5th year when I was already a coterminal Masters student living off campus for half a year.I think it really depends, and you need to ask yourself a few questions:(1) How often will you go off campus? I typically went off campus, either biking, taking the CalTrain, or with a friend who had a car, on average twice a week or so in the start of the quarter, but as each quarter got busier near the middle and end, I would go far less than that.(2) Where are you going that will actually require a car? Safeway is totally biking distance. I'm not sure why people say that anything longer than a 10-minute bike ride is outside biking range. For SF, just take the Caltrain up to Millbrae, and BART up. I very rarely actually drive to the city even now that I have a car--parking sucks, so I just drive up to Daly City and BART the rest of the way. If you're going to drink up in SF, you probably wouldn't drive anyway. For Tahoe, during ski season, there's tons of people heading up every weekend, as well as shuttles every so often. The movies, Monterey, Big Sur, Point Reyes, Santa Cruz, Yosemite, etc are definitely legit though.(3) Will you go places by yourself? If not, I've very rarely not been able to find a person with a car that I knew who was willing to go somewhere with me, as long as I had a bit of flexibility. For popular outdoors places, like Yosemite and Point Reyes, you can almost always find someone driving there that weekend on Stanford Outdoors email lists.(4) Is that enough to justify the huge cost of owning a car? So if you do want more flexibility than that--say you'd like to be able to go to Yosemite on a whim, or you'd like to go places by yourself, or you often need to haul stuff, then getting a car may make sense. Just consider whether it's worth it to pay for maintenance, parking, registration, and insurance for that flexibility, or whether other alternatives are preferable. ZipCar likely will come out much, much cheaper if you average only a few trips a quarter. Even rental at the Enterprise on campus is pretty cheap.In my experience, there's probably only once a quarter or so where I found myself really wanting to go somewhere, but unable to get there. For me, that's not worth the pretty massive cost of vehicle upkeep.

Is it worth having a car at the University of Chicago as a grad student?

Yes, it is. Although I am in the college, I have plenty of grad student friends and instructors. Having a car in Hyde Park is useful for a few main reasons:-the winter is horrid and Chicago transit and University busses are not that reliable and that accessible-it especially seems so when it's 10 below with a severe windchill after the sun sets and before the sidewalks are salted \U0001f612-your social circle will definitely extend beyond Hyde Park. Having a car makes socializing in other parts of Chicago and beyond easier and more fun. After all, the best bars are easily an hour away by transit and way too expensive via Uber or Lyft (free first Lyft ride with the code Caitlyn236 by the way)-you'll likely have to move apartments at some point during your studies and it is easier to transport things if you have a car -if you are interested in going to the Indiana Dunes, apple picking, outlet malls, and other things like that, a car makes that stuff way more accessible As far as parking goes, there is parking available on the streets that my colleagues with cars have found to be sufficient. Some apartments and buildings even have parking structures. Another perk: the university police can help jump your car or help out in other ways of you end up stranded for some reason. That's also an indicator that the university is aware of a significant portion of the population has a car on campus

Why is it that my coworkers look down upon me for not having a car at 19 while they are not attending a university whereas I am?

At 19 my attending Uni was of little consequence. I still didn’t have a degree to help me in the work market (one could arguably question whether I do yet, but alas), I was little more than a glorified pupil in grown-up school.Me not having a car in the city isn’t a great issue, but oh boy does that change whenever I go home to visit the folks. There having a car is paramount. Much more relevant than just having started the road towards higher enlightenenent or whatever.I have to borrow one from my mom, or I will be stranded on the grace of our fickle (and rather flawed) public transportation gods. Going pretty much anywhere (but perhaps the nightbus to Oslo) after the afternoon isn’t much of an option.A car is a short-term crucial item that is also useful on the long term in an environment where viable replacements are scarce. It is also a status symbol.An education is a long term investments without proper viable replacements. Yes, getting a job done without an education is possible, though education better odds for a greater number of people to do that job in the first place - barring some practical ones that require practical experience as well.An education in its beginning stages will become useful, but at 19 (lest you skipped many grades) it hasn’t happened yet. Ar 19 a car will (literally) get you places. Your education is hours of not doing paid work that might pay off in a few years.Yes, education is useful. Paramount, in my opinion. But it takes a bit longer to shine than the turn of the key and purr of the car engine.

Is it true that at Stanford University students are not allowed to have a car on campus?

A2A. Yes, it is true for freshmen. Here is the policy: “Stanford students are not permitted to bring cars to campus for the duration of their freshman year (Fall through Spring quarters). This includes students who have enough credits to be considered sophomores at any time during their first academic year at Stanford.” See Parking & Transportation Services.