If I had had a choice, I would have chosen differently. No one wakes up in the morning and feels proud of their Any Valid Permit. It is the leftover French fries of parking passes.
I bought a car in August 2021, long after parking passes had gone on sale, and I did not officially inform the government about it until late September. They granted me a license plate number, and only then could I buy a parking pass. I went to the parking services office during the third week of classes, so when they offered me the Any Valid Permit, it was my only option. I left buzzing, grateful to be allowed to park on campus at all.
The only surface level benefit of the AV permit is the fact that it is relatively cheaper than other parking passes. According to Mississippi State University Parking and Transit Services, an AV permit is $58 cheaper than the resident parking passes and $45 cheaper than the commuter permits. Congratulations, those savings just paid for the parking ticket you will inevitably get during your time here.
The AV pass grants you access to the scattered overflow lots planted on random spots around campus. Anyone with an MSU parking pass can park in them. According to the MSU parking zones map, there are 24 Any Valid Permit lots on the grounds. They can be a bit of a trek. A large gravel lot is laid beside the music buildings, accessible only by the dead end street that runs beside the Commuter East lots. There is a large one on Hardy Road near the Kent Sills Band Hall. Another sits in the far reaches of the map beside Nusz Park. 
They are sparse and mostly well over a half a mile from the center of the drill field, which is not great. None of this pitch will be “great.” I promise, though, it will earn that rare and earnest description that eludes public transit systems, airport schedules and families across the country: functional.
Good morning, it is 9:30 am and you are leaving late for class in Carpenter Hall.
If you have commuter pass, plan A is check for available spots in your assigned lot. Usually that works out fine, especially in the middle of the semester when students less committed than you skip class more often. However, in the beginning of the semester, the parking lots suffer the same fate as gyms during January. A sudden influx of students convincing themselves to turn over a new leaf devastates the delicate ecosystems of the parking lots. The same thing happens at the end of the semester when people realize they have D’s and on days when the weather is good by Mississippi standards.
Good morning, it is 8:40 am, and you are stuck behind a Toyota Camry that is scanning the parking lot at a speed that you could beat walking, a parking lot that you know, deep down, is certainly full. 
If you have a commuter pass, this is when you get desperate enough to try plan B: parking in the overflow lots. With an Any Valid Permit, you start the day desperate. As far as my parking pass is concerned, every spot in every commuter and resident lot is already full, no matter what time I arrive. I live in perpetually in the plan B zone.
With an AV permit, parking is an eat or be eaten situation from the minute you cross onto campus. Metaphorically, this is life in the fast lane, where your niche in the parking lot is in constant threat not only by other people with your pass, but also by outsiders from neighboring lots. Literally, it is life at about 20 mph, but the rush of finding a spot in the AV lot between Sessums  and Nunnellee residence halls gives me tunnel vision like I just won the Indy 500. Things get calmer after 3 pm, when, according to MSU’s Parking Zone Information page, commuter passes can park in any commuter lot, and even calmer at 6 pm, when parking services stops doing their rounds.
Good morning, it is 10:22 am, and you are driving away from your designated parking lot, looking for anywhere to park.
When things get dire in the commuter parking lots, as I am told they often do, any valid permit lots fill up quickly as well. This is where plan C comes in, which is parking in the timed visitor lot beside the Bost Conference Center and moving your car in between classes. This is convenient if you happen to have just one class in Giles Hall on any given day. If you find that you do not, in fact, have just one class in Giles Hall, the option is still available for you, though is admittedly never the best option. The Bost lot is on the wrong side of Davis Wade Stadium, which I assume was put in the center of campus on accident. 
AV permits are a dance between plans B and C. It is outlaw parking. It is subpar, but you probably already tolerate more subpar things than you can count. It works, which is the important thing. Besides, on mornings when you drive past occupied spot after occupied spot, just remind yourself it could be worse: you could live on campus, where plan A is electric longboard, and every back up plan falls somewhere on the spectrum between walking and crawling.