When college students hear the word library, they usually groan and associate it with horrible memories of cramming for finals and impossible exams. You may be feeling a bit like Leslie Knope, but here are 10 reasons I live at the library:

1. The café. Don’t even bother going to Outtakes in the morning unless you’re willing to wait in a line out the door. The library café is fresher and calmer for your morning bagel and coffee pick me up.

2. It’s quiet. When you need to cram last minute for that test you just started studying for, this is the perfect place.

3. Bean bag chairs. As if the quiet floor wasn’t great enough with the silence and inability to get distracted, you can pretend to be a kid again and have no priorities and be comfortable too.

4. Because being a junior, you actually care about what you're learning and need to do well in your major to ya know, graduate and stuff.

5. Everyone is struggling. I mean what other place on campus is there where everyone is just as stressed as you without you having to say a word. They just get it.

6. Because even with all of the people who don’t get the “shhh” memo, it’s less distracting than your friends.

7. It’s the only public place on campus where it’s acceptable to stress-cry and no one will bother you.

8. There's always a nice librarian willing to show you their sorcery to sift through thousands of irrelevant articles for a project due the next day.

9. The euphoria you feel after finishing a paper you worked on for hours in the library and you are free at last.

10. When you find your regular study group and feel better knowing "we're all in this together."

So while you may be feeling like this...

At least there's a place you can go to feel normal and get work done. Here's to a semester spent at the library!