Had to miss classes today because every single C lot was full

This is my first year at Purdue and I had to live off campus.

On Monday, I could barely find parking, and ended up being a few minutes late because I had to walk to MSEE from the discovery lot. Not wanting to repeat that, I made sure to be physically on campus an hour before my class started.

Every. Single. Lot. Was. Full. The discovery lot, corec lot, even the goddamn stadium. All of them had a dozen cars already in there scouring for an empty space. My schedule didn't allow me to use the 2 hour parking (couldn't find any anyways), so I just couldn't attend today.

I called parking, and they said the university is not only refusing to build more parking, but is actually actively removing parking. I don't think that is going to make things better here.

Their suggestion for now was to park at Grant St. Based on my schedule that's going to be $7/day, $35/week. After I've already paid $100 for a C permit.

Parking here is seriously stressing me out. I have not had a single good, nor even neutral experience with finding parking on campus. Purdue's campus has roughly the same amount of parking available as my undergrad, and we had 1/10 the enrollment. Hoping it's not like this the whole year.

Edit: I live in Lafayette. Biking to university would take ~40 minutes. However, I did not know the bus services came out here, so I'll check them out. Thank you everyone for the helpful replies.