Sshh! This is a Library!

I am writing this post from the library, which I do many times. I think I may have previously mentioned my hatred for doing work in libraries, but please humor me as I rant some more about my extreme dislike of these locations of learning. Here it goes.

Libraries are quiet. Too quiet. I feel like I should silence the keyboard on my laptop because my typing is making too loud of a typing noise. People are coughing—all over the place—which makes me question just how sanitary this place is. The tables are positioned in strange arrangements so that whenever I look up from my studying or whatever I’m doing at the time, nine times out of ten I make awkward eye contact with someone at an opposite table. I never have all of the things I need to get proper studying done. Need a highlighter? I have one!…at home in my room, i.e. not in the library where I am now, needing a highlighter. Finished your Spanish homework early and need to do biology? Too bad! Biology book is back at the dorm. Want to listen to your favorite song? Great! But you can’t, because you would disturb the other library patrons.

The study section is on the third floor. I enter on the first floor/basement. I have to climb three flights of stairs with a bag full of heavy textbooks to get to my desired location. By the time I get there, I am out of breath and my calves are sore so of course, everyone who is already there stares at me. I can’t take the elevator because the beeping is extremely loud which just announces to the entire library, “HEY! THIS GIRL IS TOO LAZY TO TAKE THE STAIRS! GLARE AT HER PLEASE!” I have been emotionally scarred. I am terribly sorry that I had to bore you all with my ramblings about what you may think is nonsense but in reality is vital information. In conclusion, I hate the library,

The End.

 

Comments

[Charlotte]

Yeah, too-quiet libraries are super awkward. I havent really found this to be the case at my school, but in the "reading room" of my public library at home I feel awkward if I even have to turn the page.

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