A handful of little-known study spots around campus could be the best places to do homework.
For example, third-year business administration student MacKenzie Williams said, the best hidden study spots students may not know about are empty classrooms.
“I love classrooms,” Williams said. “I will die on that hill.”
“My first semester, I would basically stay in [empty] classrooms,” Williams said. “It’s quiet [and] you’re alone. The only thing you have to worry about are the motion sensor lights. That’s it. That’s literally it.”
Second-year computer science and engineering student Tamyra Hill said the library is the “most populated” study location on campus.
“Holy crap. … It’s kind of like ‘The Hunger Games,’” Hill said. “The second you step out of [a study] room … we’re packing our stuff too, to get into the [study room] the second you step out.”
The fourth floor of Florestano is just the opposite, Hill said.
Because the first three floors of the building are under construction, “the people assume it’s closed, but the fourth floor is actually open,” Hill said.
“It is so freaking pretty,” Hill said. “It has, like, an office-style computer center with cubicles and whatnot, but nobody’s ever in them, so trust [that] you’d be alone. … It’s a nice, quiet place.”
Tynesha Allen, a second-year nursing student, said Rooms 310 and 312 in the Health and Life Sciences Building are “secluded” and “spacious.”
Allen added, “They get [more] sunlight compared to other rooms.”
Elizabeth Appel, the dean of the School of Life Sciences, said she looked at the study rooms in the library when designing the spaces on HLSB’s third floor.
“Those are nice; they’re just highly used,” Appel said. “So we knew we had to have places for students to go and study [in HLSB].”
Dean Lance Bowen of the School of Science, Technology and Education pointed to a couple of “pretty fun” and “private” spaces in the CALT building.
For example, the building is home to two second-floor lounges: CALT 214 and 238.
“There is [also] an outdoor second-floor roof garden where you can go and hang out at the picnic table,” Bowen said.
