So I've started going to the library at the private college across town to do all my work. I went their library the other day to attend a lecture and couldn't believe how much nicer and quieter it was. For some reason, at ISU the students not only seem to think it's acceptable to talk loudly in the library, they now play music in their laptops while having meetings wherever they please. Since I started going to the other one my usual daily productivity has doubled. I did my undergrad at UW-Whitewater, not a top-tier institution by any means, but the students would never be as loud or ridiculous in the library as the students at ISU. If you talked at UWW someone would inevitably tell you to shut the hell up. Here you're stuck overhearing casual conversations about taking aderall, how the news sucks because they "just want to be entertained", and speeches about the unfairness of underage drinking laws- seriously, I heard all three of these conversation in the last week alone.
But the library at the private college is exceptional. The lighting doesn't feel like it's sucking your brains out, the rotunda is amazing, and the shelves are all this beautiful dark wood. Plus it's fun to go and see what it's like to have what I call in my head 'private school money,' which I do not. Today I was taking a piss there and thought to myself "I bet this is what the bathrooms at Columbia are like."
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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