If you've ever been to Kent's campus, you've seen the library. It's kinda hard to miss. When you take FYE as a freshman, you learn about all the floors and the content on each.The library is a great place to get some work done and it has some cool perks, so don't get me wrong when I say this: the library can sucks.
Let's just start off with the fact the Starbucks in the library doesn't take meal plan. Why? I couldn't tell you. Does anyone else remember when the escalators were down for a month and literally just became stairs we couldn't use? Oh and you want to take the elevator? Ha! Nice try! You will look like Gandalf by the time it arrives. There are signs posted talking about saving time and using the stairs, but who in their right mind wants to take nine flights of stairs?
Let's discuss the fourth floor...
The fourth floor is a place where one person will take up a cubicle to play on their phone. Or chatty people take up a booth for no reason. Like come on people, some of us have group work that needs done. There is always that one person passed out on a bean bag snoring obnoxiously. Sometimes you get that person playing music out loud or just singing their heart out like it's the season finale of The Voice.
Next bathrooms... Better make sure the floor you are on has a bathroom, because let me tell you, nothing is worse than having your stuff spread out, shoes off, in the zone, and then having to pee and realizing your floor doesn't have a bathroom. If you're like me, and you know you're on the floor alone, use the little boy's room, no one is around to judge anyways.
I get it, the higher up you go, the older the furniture gets. If you've ever been on the 10th floor you know how much the wooden chairs suck. So how about it, Kent? We could use some of those pretty green tuition dollars I pay every semester to update the library floors and chairs. If I can't focus on studying cause my butt hurts, I'm not going to succeed, and that just isn't right.
Club Lib isn't all that bad. I mean, I love the view out the windows when I'm on the higher floors (as long as I'm not looking at construction). If you find the right desk, you can find some pretty motivational sayings carved into the wood. The drop-in tutoring is such a help and I know it has saved me a few times. And okay, even if I have to pay real people money, having Starbucks downstairs is a blessing. Yes, the older floors suck, but the silence is amazing. I get so much accomplished. At the end of the day I'm sure everyone sees their own perks in the library, but I think the downfalls are pretty universal.
