Athought occurred to me as I waited in line to purchase my six piece chicken nuggets and Diet Coke in a popular fast food joint downtown during peak lunch time. Why do most companies give their employees only one hour to eat their lunches and all of them at the same time? Sure some people bring their own lunches in little plastic bags, but sometimes, hot food does a body good, especially with extra pickles. If you look through the windows of these little fast food emporiums, you will see them packed full of desperate hungry employees trying to scarf food down their throats as fast as possible to beat the clock and be back at their desks before the lunch hour is up. It’s become a carnival of consumerism where only the ones who can chew fastest get to eat all their fries.

So why bring this up? Do I have a point? Why yes I do. It’s all about congestion. If you make everyone go to the same places at the same time, it slows everything down. The traffic that makes the fast food line at your local burger eatery as slow as molasses is the same principal that makes parking such an unbelievable ache here on campus. Of the hundreds of classes given here at Shoreline Community College, nearly 70 percent of the classes are given before noon. Can’t find a place to ditch your wheels in the A.M.? Try just for the heck of it to visit the campus say around 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. It’s like a ghost town on most days except for those who have evening classes. The few who still haven’t been cancelled anyway. While trying to build my schedule this quarter, I was forced to abandon the idea of taking the classes that I wanted, but rather the classes that I could get to fit my schedule. When adding all the problem of cancelled classes to the increasing number of morning classes, I was forced to choose between three classes I needed to obtain my degree because they were all taught at exactly the same time, 8:30.

Maybe if the administration when forming the class curriculum would space out the classes more evenly during the day instead of in the morning, attendance would be better, nullifying the need for cancellation and frustration in the crammed parking lots. But hey, that’s just my opinion, you can have it.