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Parking is undoubtedly the source of many a Pepperdine student’s complaints. If you get to campus early or late enough in the day, you can find a good spot, but getting your car in it might entail—brace yourself—parallel parking. Not only that, but you often will have to parallel park on an incline or a decline, which helps explain why fender benders seem remarkably common. At other times, the only reliable place to park is down at the Firestone Fieldhouse parking lot, which doesn’t require parallel parking, but does mean you will probably have to hike to class.

Students whine an awful lot about parking, but in truth it isn’t that bad. Pepperdine spoils its students in so many ways that the inconvenience of parking seems like a disaster, but, for one thing, the parking permit’s free. For another, you can always find a parking space; you just might have a torturous 10-minute hike up the hill ahead of you to get to class, which probably means that you will arrive sweaty, irritable, and grumbling about the parking on campus. But, if you allow yourself just a little extra time on your drive to school—which is, I must admit, a curiously difficult thing to do in college—you can park your car in the rarely-full parking lot at the Firestone Fieldhouse and then wait for a shuttle to come by and whisk you off to class.

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nat93

History '13

1.5

D+

Always a Challenge

You can bring your car on campus as a Freshman and parking permits are free. The tour guides will tell you that you don't need a car on campus because of shuttle service to the local shops, but you really do need one if you want to get anywhere. parking on campus is horrible. There never seem to be enough places in main lots, so you better get really good at parallel parking on a curve on a hill and be prepared to hike to class if you miss the shuttle.

Jan 11, 2012

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meow17

International Business '14

2.3

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Parking Sucks

Parking at Pepperdine is bad. They need to find a way to more accesible parking for those that live off campus. The permits are free if you live on campus, DPS will ticket you if you are parked in the wrong place. You definitely need a car on campus.

Jan 11, 2012

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ericgraciano

International Business '12

4.2

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If You Live on Campus, Its Good

If you live on campus its usually easy to find parking lot, but if not it'll depend of the time you arrive to school... there is always open spots, it'll only differ on where it'll be.

Dec 28, 2011

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