advantages

there are several advantages to writing a blog that can not be found in any other format of writing. the most obvious is that is easily accessible to anyone anywhere, whether you know them or not.  Along with being able to read what you have written, readers can also add their own input to the blog and it becomes a conversation instead of a single sided article.  Comments can also add to what is being said along with being able to back up the point that is being made.  Students of Salt Lake Community College can easily reach this blog and read about some of the school's issues, the issue in the case of this blog being the location of it's portable classrooms.  Ideas and issues are easily spread and shared from students to campuses faster than they would if they were using any other medium.  Students of other schools could also potentially find this information and possibly be able to relate to whatever the issue might be and be able to use it as a reference for similar issues at their own schools, helping them to be able to back up their own points that they are trying to make and making it clearer that the issue is actually problem because there is evidence of there being a similar issue in other schools.  Anyone can find the information as easily as they can share it.  Blogging isn't limited to those who have gone into English and allows everyone to be able to share their ideas and thoughts easily.

conversation

Everyone who has read this blog so far has at least been able to relate or sympathize with the hassle of having to make the journey from campus to portable classrooms.  Not everyone, however, has been able to say that the hassle has caused them excessive tardiness.  This, I'm sure, has had to do with that their classes are, before and after their expeditions, as close to the portables as they possibly can be. My other classes are not the closest to the portable classrooms, but neither are they the furthest away. Another possible explanation for this would be that they are also taking earlier classes and are able to get prime parking spots for having to cross over to these classrooms, giving them easier access.  My classes seem to all be at the peak of the rush at the Redwood Campus, making it almost impossible to get a parking spot, get out of the parking lot and cross the streets where I have to make two left turns through traffic to get to my class before it starts successfully. Because most students attend classes during the busiest time of day, I'm sure the majority that have classes at the portables understands the difficulty of getting to these on time, where as students taking classes later on in the day might not have run into as many problems with it.

direction

Salt Lake Community College should, if not consolidate their many campuses, the point of their being so many to make them more accessible, at least make the classes on these campuses, actually possible to get to.  As the number of classes and students at SLCC has grown,  the amount of places to put these has dropped, forcing the school to add relocatable classrooms to their campuses.  The problem with these relocatable classrooms, is where they've been put isn't very accessible or convenient.  Every day on my way to classes I notice empty classrooms that could have been a place to put the class I have to walk across the street to get to.  It seems like SLCC should be able to rearrange class times to make them all fit into real class rooms.  Consolidating class schedules might also help with the problem of having to find a parking spot in a parking lot that's packed.  If this isn't possible, maybe SLCC could relocate these relocatable classrooms to somewhere closer to campus where they would be easier to get to.  Making a parking structure would make the most of the limited space the campus has.  Instead of expanding, cars could be stacked, potentially creating enough space to add an extra building or an area to relocate the portable classrooms to.

Defending the Position

That I have to make the walk from one end of the campus across the street to the portable classrooms could be seen as being my fault for having signed up for the classes, but in my defense, i didn't know and had no way of being able to know exactly where these classes were going to be.  It seems like they could rearrange class schedules so that all the classes could fit in actual class rooms.  Sure, Salt Lake Community College should focus on teaching and their classes,  but what's the point if no one can make it to these classes, at least not on time?  I'm sure that they could consolidate classes and their times better to make it work.  Part of the appeal of going to SLCC is that there are small classes, sure, but just by bumping the class schedules around a little bit it seems like they could get them to fit right with out ruining the small community college charm.  Having to make the walk is bad enough, but having to do it in the cold makes it worse.  I can drive my car over there, but then I have to make two left turns on the same busy street and that takes about as long as it would to have walked it.  They could have at least put the portable classrooms somewhere more accessible. If they were to have done that, however they would have made the parking situations that's already bad as it is even worse, as unimaginable as that might seem.  The solution to that would be that they should try to find a place big enough to hold all of it's classes instead of creating a thousand extensions that hardly make getting to them worth it. But the best solution would be to get rid of the portable classrooms all together and just rearrange the class schedules to make them fit.