Main:
If the main floor is your floor, you live life in motion. The perfect place to quickly stop by between classes attracts those who don’t want to commit. To their studies! If you come here, you probably are either doing group work, a swimmer, or a Williams School major who needs people to see you do your work on those IMAX sized monitors. Jokes aside, if the main floor is your spot, you can definitely hold a conversation well and are probably good under pressure in social situations, seeing as you never know who you may run into on the main floor of the library.
First Floor:
If the Harte Center for Gossiping and Slandering is where you choose to reside, you’re someone who goes to the library to do fieldwork on social interactions. The natural light and funky furniture of this floor open up the perfect space for gossip sessions of all sizes where you can open your computer to a blank Word Doc and pretend to do work. Let’s be real, you come here for a more elevated Coop Porch experience. Your STEM-majored friends drop you off here on their way into the depths of Leyburn, not unlike parents dropping their kids off at school. If the Harte Center is your favorite, you probably loved recess in elementary school and color code your notes to an insane degree. We can’t forget all the valuable group work that happens in here, though, how else would the student body have figured out the identities behind @wlusiblingsordating or @wlubananacam without the secret sleuths of the first floor?
Second Floor:
If the second floor is your favorite, I respect you. The second floor of Leyburn says, “Ok guys, let’s get down to business”. You take your studying seriously enough to want a quiet spot, but you’re social enough to want opportunity for study break chatter at those famed wooden tables with names and Greek letters of yore etched in. You’re probably older than a freshman but not yet jaded enough to crave and hunger for the sterility of a lower floor. You’re not a regular student, you’re a cool student. You probably drink Pronto coffee and use a legal pad.
Third Floor:
For those too busy for the second floor but not stressed enough for the fourth floor. A floor arguably unnecessary for much other than being a liminal space to take care of the spirits with too much quiet work for the second floor and a healthy fear of the dangers of the fourth floor. If this place is your favorite, you’re probably the friend who can get along with anyone and always is down for a good drive.
Fourth Floor:
Ah, the famed floor where you can’t even open a bag of chips without someone staring at you (according to every tour guide ever at any school with a library). For serious studiers, or people who pretend to be serious studiers, how do you like that prison cell of a study room down there? If you study on the fourth floor, especially this early in the year, I’m praying for your health and well-being. You thrive in a dark, windowless environment reminiscent of a cave. You’re comfortable by yourself and in silence, which is commendable. Cheers to independence and your hard work!
Bonus:
Science library— Show-offs, posers, and those above the drama of Leyburn.
Law library— Who are you?
– Anonymous
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