<p>Does anybody know what parking permit is the best one? Or any advice on this?</p>
<p>For me, I'm going to be living on campus; my preferences for dorms are Prather/Brack/Roberts/Littlefield/Jester.</p>
<p>I'm in English major so I'm guessing I'll be around the six pack near the tower a lot.</p>
<p>Basically, I need an overnight parking spot since I'm going to have my car. I definitely will have to find a job during the school year. But I mean, I'm probably not going to be driving to class - as most people say that's impossible, so I'll have a bike too. </p>
<p>Having a car on campus is a pain in my opinion- too many thefts, maintenance, etc. The closest to Prather/Jester is the garage behind Jester (Brazos Garage).</p>
<p>I’m planning on getting a better alarm system. My car goes off if I don’t jimmy the key the right way when I’m unlocking it lol. It’s not old though.</p>
<p>I do not know about Dobie, but the Castilian does offer parking to nonresidents. so I am guessing Dobie should do that too because many of the offf-campus dorms you have to pay separately to buy the parking permit. Also as for the thefts, I know about one from my biology class. This weekend she (a student from my bio class) parked her car somewhere. When she returned to it at night, she found the window down. Hmm… freaky, right? turns out, the closer she walks toward her car, she discovers that someone broke her car’s glass windows and stolen her Mac… with all her biology notes in the computer. (She types her notes onto the computer while the lecturer talks.) Therefore, she sent around a mass email asking for notes. Furthermore, she came to where I sit to ask the TA (who sits behind me) if the TA could give her the notes the TA talked about during discussion times ( we have “discussions” for biology class at UT.).</p>
<p>That was one of the more personal incidences of burglaries that I know.</p>
<p>Huh! Well thanks xtra! I’ll see if the Castillian can cut me deal.
I’m getting a Macbook or Mb Pro before end of May, but I guess I’d always have it with me or hidden. That really stinks though - and then to have to drive without a window. </p>
<p>I don’t know what it looks like in a college classes just yet. Does everybody take notes on laptops?</p>
<p>sasha, for some reasons most students here have a Mac if you want to look cool and be “in” with the group.
I have one of those cheap Acer computers. In my physics lab this semester, both the TA and one of the students laughed at me because I did not know how to print on a Mac.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are other commercial investors who own parking lots/ garages near campus. For example, I believe there is a garage that sells parking at their newly-built garage for around 529 without weekends and 700-ish with the weekends. I think. The garage is near San Antonio Street and Martin Luther King. They have a banner on the garage. If you drive near the building, you cannot miss the banner. The banner is yellow and has contact info</p>
<p>@xtra: if you don’t know the fundamentals of why certain people get Macs, please don’t say rude comments/false info about people buying them to “fit in”. Most Engineers use Macs because of their Unix-based software system. Some people buy Macs due to their sturdy construction and quality. </p>
<p>In regards to taking notes on a laptop, it’s difficult in certain classes like Physics, Chemistry, and Calculus so that’s why I don’t take notes on my computer. Plus I don’t want to carry my laptop everywhere I go (I can go to PCL or use my Phone if I need to check my email or get on the internet). Also most professors provide electronic notes via Word/PDFs/or Powerpoints.</p>
<p>seconding iambored10 here – another excellent reason to buy a Mac is not having to constantly run security systems. I was the family IT person, and I was spending hours every week working out glitches, doing general security housekeeping or repairing damage from viruses on our four family computers. Now that we have gone to Mac, I don’t do any of that. Plus, the software is less glitchy generally. Our decision had NOTHING to do with trendiness or cool.</p>
<p>I wish we could get a Mac, but structural engineering software is PC-based. I’ve had multiple crashes this past year, and a few weeks ago I got a virus that sent out spam e-mails to most of the people in my address book! Grr. I don’t know why Norton didn’t spot the virus - must have been a new one.</p>
<p>Is it very difficult to get a parking spot in one of the UT-owned garages near campus? It looks to me like parking at The Castilian is much more expensive.</p>
<p>@MaineLonghorn - My husband feels the same way. He was our original Mac fan in the family, but because all of his secure work info is on his office PC-laptop (his work company is PC based with multiple interacting databases and software), he just uses it. He is NOT amused that he is the only one in the family not using a Mac.</p>
<p>Buried - if you purchase a garage parking pass through UT you shouldn’t have any problem finding a spot. I have a C pass and occasionally park in the garages when I’m running late and don’t want to walk, and I always find a spot.</p>
<p>So I don’t really think I’ll ever need to drive to class (living on campus), but I live three hours away now and will need to have a car there for the occasional visit back. What’s the best option for parking if you won’t be driving it but maybe on the weekends, or even every other week?</p>
