Ouch! I feel your pain
Tuition gets jacked up every year, and IIRC, we had to pay each semester's tuition at the end of the previous semester. At the same time, we had to pay our dorm charges and house tax. Writing those big checks is not my idea of fun... I think the down payment on my house was less.
My freshman year, parking was like $10 a semester (not sure, since I didn't have a car back then). By my graduate year, it was $30 a *month*. That's a 1400% increase.
Oh, and I found out during my final year, that I was entitled to get a city resident parking sticker, which cost $8 for the year.
My husband once got a parking ticket for parking where he was supposed to. The lot where he was supposed to park was for dorm residents only, so the parking stickers for that lot were printed with the letter R (for resident) on them. Only, that year the housing office screwed up and didn't print the R's. So some overzealous campus policeman went through that lot and ticketed EVERY SINGLE CAR for being parked illegally. Now, this was a gated lot, so you couldn't even get your car into the lot if you weren't entitled to park there. My husband fought the ticket and won, but I think a lot of people just paid them. 200 cars x $25 per car = a lot of donuts.
As for cleaning the bathrooms every other day... all I have to say is, ewwww
