The struggles of carpooling to school

It’s you versus time. You hope to beat the clock and you usually do.
Commuting to college is a challenge that includes even smaller challenges. Commuters who carpool to school split the cost of driving, but don’t have space to share. I carpool to school every day of the week.
When I’m not driving, I would like to be reading or studying for class that I’m about to go to, but sometimes I can’t because I have to respect the space of the person driving. If they want to listen to music loudly or pass 18-wheeler trucks, you don’t have room to tell them not to, because you aren’t driving and it’s not your car.
Once you arrive to campus you’re now faced with the challenge of finding parking, and walking about 10 minutes to class.
When I find a really close parking spot to my classes, it’s usually a tight fit because the person next to me didn’t park straight.
I can’t really complain because I, too, don’t always park straight.
Sometimes I find myself driving all the way to school just to find out class is canceled, or just to turn in an assignment.
The most devastating struggle I face is not having an umbrella in my car on the rainy days or wearing long sleeves on a hot day.
Waking up early to commute isn’t much of a struggle for me, except when I stay up late watching television.
All of these challenges I face commuting don’t really matter to me, because at the end of the day I get to go home and see my family.
Seeing my family every day is what matters most to me, and I think going to college 30 minutes away is only a benefit because I get to see them.
They make my commuter student challenges disappear.