If you’re a college kid, chances are you spend about 50 percent of your weekday nights at the library studying in misery, struggling to concentrate on the seemingly endless novel you procrastinated until the night before to read or the paper you add random words to in order to reach the 10-page minimum. While scanning the tables and couches, hating yourself for your lack of time management skills and wanting nothing but to be done with your piles of work and heading to bed, it is almost guaranteed you will see these types of people lurking in every section of the library.
1. The Diligent Worker
These is the person who always sit down, do their work, get sh*t done and leave. No time is wasted on their phones, doodling in their notebooks or socializing with their buddies. You watch these people and wish you could be half as productive as they are, then you go right back to scrolling through Instagram.
2. The People Watchers
This group that makes up about 80 percent of the library population, people watchers are clearly more interested in others’ lives than the laptop screen in front of them. Can you really blame them, though? They are seen constantly scanning the room and watching, thinking and probably judging others. They look zoned out most of the time, but the random thoughts circulating inside their heads are probably something close to “Oh, that’s the cute boy who sits across from me in Chem,” or, “I wonder if that girl knows her shirt is inside-out.”
3. The Social Butterfly
There’s always that one person who rolls up to the library with their squad, somehow overlooking the quiet zone signs and pathetically attempting to whisper to their friends (it’s more of an awkwardly loud noise) about last night’s “crazy” occurrence or something irrelevant that nobody cares to overhear. Everyone around the social butterfly is wishing she would kindly close her mouth so the peaceful quiet of the library would be restored, but they all just roll their eyes and attempt to tune them out.
4. The Snoozers
Almost always in the comfy chairs at the library, these students pop in their headphones, act productive for a few minutes, then switch to full-on sleep mode. Let’s be real, though, we can all relate to the sleep deprived struggle, and you have to give them credit for their ability to fall asleep anytime, anywhere.
5. The Awkward Guy (Or Girl)
These students come to finish their homework in peace, only to be disrupted by their own phone blaring an embarrassing ringtone or their laptop unexpectedly playing the song they had pulled up on the browser on full volume. Instead of playing it cool and laughing it off, these people become flustered, frantically trying to plug in their headphones, but managing to knock their books off the table or scatter their papers everywhere. The struggle is real.
