As a student of Virginia State University, I have experienced many inconveniences due to a lack of funds. So when it comes to money and having to spend it I know a lot about it. One of the leading causes of breaking my pockets would have to be the fact that I had to pay expenses for things that shouldn’t have to be paid for by a student of the university. I am very passionate about this issue because it causes me not to have money when I have to pay for little things like laundry, parking tickets, and room fines. Now, these topics of additional expenses take away from the things we as students need to pay for necessities like books and supplies for classes. As a freshman student with no job, it is extremely hard to pay for all of these activities and fines and maintain money for food and bare necessities. To break it down, the word fine means to punish one by making them pay a sum of money for breaking the law. I understand that the law is to help protect you but how can you be protected by a law that is not created for you to successfully obey it. Why is it that we have a growing campus with less parking spaces in common areas where an overwhelming percent of the campus participates in? For example, if there is an overwhelming number of students that are music majors, then there should be a bigger parking lot for students to park in instead of twelve spaces. That would save an overwhelming amount of parking ticket fines for students all over campus. Instead of designing a system that will fail the student, why not give the something worth learning to hold on to. An additional expense that really bothers students like me on campus is room check fines. Why should students who haven’t taken their trash out be fined twenty-five dollars? I understand that administrators have to crack down on the rules of residence life, but it shouldn’t get to the point to where it’s about greed and getting money for incompetent reasons find thi