The dreadful finals week that has been looming over us for months now has finally arrived.
You know what that means?
Club Cook is open 24/7, along with the Starbucks downstairs to assist our caffeine-fueled, late night, panic-mode study attempts.
That's a whole five extra hours to study in the library instead of your room, or people watch if you promised a part two to follow your last article about people in the library. (check that out here --> https://www.theodysseyonline.com/7-people-late-nig...)
1. The Study Room Hangout
It is a group of friends occupying the precious space that is a private study room... and not studying. They are playing Cards Against Humanity and eating pizza instead. Was it really necessary to use a study room for this? No. If that were its true purpose, it would be called a private pizza party room or game night room, or something else that sounds as unproductive as their night was. Hooligans.
2. The Legit Study Room Goers
This group is using the study room for its intended purpose. I'm nearly positive that they are all studying different subjects, because they are being good little robots and not interacting with each other at all. At least they're actually doing school related things. However, a few too many people are trying to fit in the room. Honestly, who has enough friends to overfill a study room?
3. The Empty Table
Well, it isn't empty. Technically the 6 chairs surrounding the table are empty, aside from a jacket hanging off the back here and there. I'm sure people inhabited them at one time, and intend to again soon, since their textbooks and notes are still scattered on the table. I'm guessing they all decided they had to pee at the same time, based on the 14 Starbucks cups littered across the table top.
4. The Date
Finals week is probably not the best time to plan a study date, but props to this cute little couple in the library since they were there as long as I was and I heard no yelling or snappy comments about one interrupting the other multiple times with a question about a class that the other isn't actually in. I probably would've gotten annoyed the first time it happened.
5. The Tag-Along
For some unknown reason, this person appears to have been blessed with no final exams??? They are accompanying a group of two others who are vigilantly going over their notes together, and this third person is just sitting watching Netflix on their laptop. I would just like to know how this person managed to have nothing to study for, and if said person can teach us mere mortals their ways.
6. The Fifth Floor Inhabitant
I ran into a friend when I was leaving the second floor the other night, and she says "It's loud in here. I need to go up a few floors." The number of those that choose the fifth floor life increases during finals week, yet it is still eerily quiet up there. They are still seen and not heard. It's creepy.
Pray for all of us. There is no more closing time. We never have to leave.
