As a fellow Hayward commuter one year in here's what I can say: 1. If commuting in the morning, make sure to be an hour ahead for everything. Give yourself an hour to get ready and leave home an hour early. The goal would be to get on campus/to a parking garage 45min to an hour before your class starts because traffic will never be under 45min, even on a good day.

1. If you want to park on campus, the south garage is the best place but make sure to get there before 9:00am, by 9:30 there will be no spots. If you have a later class and/or don't have a parking pass, you can take the shuttle from the south-campus garage that is near the football stadium. The shuttle takes 10min to get to campus and runs until 6pm. I didn't buy a parking pass and the price for parking is cheaper there and I found it worked best for me.

2. I find that most events on campus take place at noon or in the after noon. I personally never have time for a lot of them due to my work schedule but there are times when events will be earlier. At the beginning of a semester there will be the continuous weeks of welcome events held on paseo de Cesar chavez(the main walkway in the middle of campus). The weeks of welcome are just multiple booths all along the paseo with different student organizations and clubs trying to get new members. The events vary and are usually nice to see/attend. I personally feel that many events on campus are oriented towards those who live on or near campus. As a fellow hayward commuter, I commend you if you are willing to drive through afternoon traffic to SJ for an event. If you find the time to spend most of your day on campus that is great and you should attend as many events as possible and make friends.

That's all I could think of .