Here at Hopkins, we all have our favorite study spots that we would defend, Hunger Games style, to the death during finals week. Little did you know that these spots divulge covert facets about your personality. Luckily, I am here with absolutely no qualifications my expertise to help decode what your study spot says about you.
Gilman Reading Room
If you’re a Gilman room studier, you’re probably only studying there so that you can instagram those tall widows. You drink soy lattes and use a toothpick to draw a heart in the foam on top. You take a picture of that, and plan to instagram it later because back to back instas are so socially unacceptable. You look at your work and realize that you have gotten nothing done since you’ve been here. You decide to take a quick power nap in the comfy brown chairs, the ones facing the windows so that nobody can see you snooze.
You wake up from a nap that went a half hour too long, and decide that you need a study snack to propel you through all this reading that you have to do (you’re a humanities student, obviously). You get a 5-dollar “homemade” granola bar from Azafràn. They are allowed to charge that much because they have an accent over the “a,” so it’s obviously better quality. You stop to talk to a few friends that you see in the atrium, and complain about how much work you have left to do today. You return back to the Gilman room, read ten pages of Jane Austen, and call it a day.
A-Level
A-level is comparable to the cool lunch table in your high school cafeteria. If you are an A level studier, you probably are on an athletic team, in Greek life, or are generally looking for many distractions and a good time. You’ll spend more time complaining about how much work you have and cursing the day you chose to come to Hopkins than you will spend finishing up your problem sets.
*Warning* I personally find that it is difficult to Facebook stalk on A-level, as your computer screen is very vulnerable to potential onlookers. Stalk with caution.
B-Level
B as in you’re a basic bitch. I am allowed to say that because I frequent B-level quite often.
C-Level
Mad props to you, C-level studier, because you have your priorities in place. You understand the delicate balance between work and play. You don’t fall into temptation and socialize with peers on the upper levels, but realize that grades actually aren’t everything (there, I said it), so you won’t succumb to holding in your sneezes on D level. Keep doing you, C. You will go far.
D-Level
You are either an art history major or going through an emotional, mental and physical breakdown because the tip of your pencil just broke. Another alternative? You are an engineer/premed/grad student who no longer finds joy looking at pictures of fat puppies cuddling with babies.
If you are on D-level solely to do the D-level challenge, right on, but you’re probably not. Because this is Hopkins. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Brody
Option A: You are working on a group project and plan to get absolutely nothing done.
Option B: You are discovering your passion for drawing while doodling on the endless abyss of white boards. You consider leaving Hopkins to pursue a career in cartooning, but only for a fleeting moment until your fantasies are obstructed when one of the security guards calls you out for eating Doritos. You hastily get back to your group project. You know better than to daydream, Brody.
Brody Reading Room
Admit it, you feel super collegiate in the Brody Reading Room. The environment is a little more serious than its hipster brother over in Gilman. You are probably a writing seminars, art history or English major, but could possibly be any arts and sciences major who has a color-coded Lily Pulitzer agenda. We don’t discriminate between prints in the Brody Reading Room.
The person sitting next to you will likely get up from his chair and disappear for a few hours, but leave his backpack there. You sit next to his backpack and feel some sort of responsibility to watch his stuff. You, Brody Reading Room studier, get there early and stay late, and you’re probably going to get an A. Enjoy your chai tea latte and gazing out of the window.
Mudd Atrium
You like it quiet, but not too quiet. You’re off the beaten path, and are willing to try something new. This secret little spot offers open seats and half-decent coffee. Good find, Mudd studier. Sorry for outing your secret.
Your Room
Give me a break. The only studying you are doing is memorizing what Netflix shows you haven’t seen yet. I know you because I am you #noshame.
There you have it, folks. Now get back to your homework. We all know you have a ton of it.
Photos:
1) http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/admissions/
2) http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/featured/gilman_hall/ (Photo by Will Kirk)
3)http://transparentlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/img_2681.jpg
4) http://nlonthedl.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/blc-opens-and-mse-get-cannons/
5) http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/2009/10/travelogue-mse-library/
6) http://transparentlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/different-atmospheres/ (Photo by Kylie Sharkey)
7) http://transparentlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/different-atmospheres/
8) Photo by Will Kirk
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