It's down the hall, tucked away in plain site, and holds conventions of all kinds every night, including a very intimate exchanging of words between two friends while I was in there making a call. Did you guess the CM Northeast study room? This room is rather suspect at times, especially since the couch was either stolen or removed for who knows what reason, but it's always there, and always occupied. Seriously. I'm writing this essay at 11:25 at night, not necessarily because I'm procrastinating but more because chemistry homework really bums me out and takes a while, and the study room still has people in there working. It's crazy.
This room empowers those who use it very eclectically, as not only me but almost everyone uses it to make phone calls, to do homework when they're kicked out of the room, and to just be social and work with people. Why does it allow people to work like this? Is it because of the desks, big armchairs, and rolling chairs that people can put their feet up on and concentrate on whatever they're doing in any way they feel comfy? Is it because of the relaxing garden view out the window, or the calming piece of this isolation with an otherwise tumultuous hallway right outside? Or maybe it's just because it's a hidden locale that, as stated above, is in plain site. This room functions the way it does because it is all these things, and provides a huge array of features for anyone who needs a room to do virtually anything. Whenever someone needs to do something that they can't do in their own room, whatever it is,they go here. It also functions this way because it has no true front wall: the front side where the door is located is entirely made of glass, allowing people to walk by and see its contents, always being used for something either productive or fun and subconsciously implanting that maybe they can use this room as well. This room works so well because, simply, it is there. It can provide an immediate escape from anything else in this college, any other event or happening, any other homework assignment or essay, and any other distraction imaginable. In this quaint, slightly dirty smelling study room, people can walk in and feel totally different, totally separated from everything else that is happening in their life, just because they have found a place that can be anything for them, and is thus everything for them.
-Luke Fanning
This room empowers those who use it very eclectically, as not only me but almost everyone uses it to make phone calls, to do homework when they're kicked out of the room, and to just be social and work with people. Why does it allow people to work like this? Is it because of the desks, big armchairs, and rolling chairs that people can put their feet up on and concentrate on whatever they're doing in any way they feel comfy? Is it because of the relaxing garden view out the window, or the calming piece of this isolation with an otherwise tumultuous hallway right outside? Or maybe it's just because it's a hidden locale that, as stated above, is in plain site. This room functions the way it does because it is all these things, and provides a huge array of features for anyone who needs a room to do virtually anything. Whenever someone needs to do something that they can't do in their own room, whatever it is,they go here. It also functions this way because it has no true front wall: the front side where the door is located is entirely made of glass, allowing people to walk by and see its contents, always being used for something either productive or fun and subconsciously implanting that maybe they can use this room as well. This room works so well because, simply, it is there. It can provide an immediate escape from anything else in this college, any other event or happening, any other homework assignment or essay, and any other distraction imaginable. In this quaint, slightly dirty smelling study room, people can walk in and feel totally different, totally separated from everything else that is happening in their life, just because they have found a place that can be anything for them, and is thus everything for them.
-Luke Fanning