This is from the English major who waited until her senior year to check out a book from the library.
When it came to picking my major, I wanted to choose something that I loved. At first, I went the "financially stable" route. I started out my college career as a pre-psychology major. I wanted to pick something I found interesting but also something that would pay the bills. However, that song quickly changed its tune when I took my first psychology class. The professor entered the room wearing brightly colored clothes covered in peace signs. The dramatic approach to his attire distracted me as a student. Also, it was a huge lecture hall in which the professor did not even know his students' names. I never knew what he wanted, as he was all over the place with his lecturing. I went to my dorm after that class and called my sister, crying because I felt like a failure. I wanted to quit college at that point. I sat down in my dorm room and really thought about what I loved in life. The one thing that I knew I loved was reading. I have books on shelves and in stacks throughout my room, in my car and in at least one bag I carry. So with that being mentioned, it's sad to say that I waited until my senior year to check out a book from our library. Why is that sad? Well, I tend to turn to the internet for everything. I use a computer to find research articles and to figure out how to cite sources. Our library on campus houses so many glorious works of literature and research. I never realized what gloriousness existed in the library. I realize now that I could have made more use of the library in order to have better research for my papers than I had by doing a broad search on the internet. I found that if you search for the novel you are writing on, in that section there may also be work that has been written on that novel. How great is that? Also, you have the analytical work there when you begin your writing. You don’t find an awesome source only to lose it when you begin writing. Having a book automatically gives you a hard copy. Also, at the library, you get to check the book out for 28 days, almost a month! If I had to do it over again, I would have spent more time with the books in the library and less time with computers. Books will always have my heart, and even more so now that I checked out my first book from the university library.
