Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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250 NIV LR WORK OR PLAY? Where will you be? Second floor reading room? I'll meet you there at eight! For those Brown students who never seem to be able to get any studying done in their rooms, the Rockefeller Library, more fondly known around campus as 'the Rock, offers the Brown student a quiet, peaceful and serious place for getting work done. As the year rolls on, however, it offers the average Brown student the best place for weekday socializing anywhere on campus as well. I haven't seen you in ages! Don't you usually study at the Sci-Li? Feel like a cup of coffee and talking a little? Sure! Anything to avoid doing work, is a typical conversation heard right before a trip to the coffee lounge. We'll work better after a hot cup of coffee! For those of us who pretend to be serious, there are things called carrels. Many people come to the library every night claiming not to able to study in the reading room and go in search of a carrel. But carrels, as you may know by now, are a quickly dying species here at Brown and every evening many disappointed students are forced into the reading room where they are subjected to such awful conditions as comfortable swivel chairs and a wonderfully distracting window view overlooking Providence. What a relaxing place to study, you may say. People who have tried it think of it as the perfect place to sleep. There are those of course who claim the second floor reading room is too noisy to sleep. If you don't happen to meet your best friend there, then the opening and closing of the sqeaky door letting in the bellows of laughter from the lounge are certainly enough to keep you awake. So, the Rock isn't the quiet, peaceful and serious place you thought it was for getting work done. This writer suggests staying in your room. It's much easier and a less painful way of not getting your work done.

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