Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Mugar Library

But only at finals.

During the first weeks of December and May, the ass-ugly Brutalist building is jam packed with BU kids trying to cram all the information into their heads that they missed all semester by killing brain cells at T's, Jtree, etc, etc, etccccccc. Didn't see you there all semester guys, why the sudden desire to bring a cot and spend 24 hours a day there? PS, it's a library - we can hear your entire conversation on the phone even though you're in the bathroom, and whispering is unacceptable for more than 30 seconds, ESPECIALLY after 2 am when there's 1000 people crammed onto the 2nd floor.

All BU kids especially love the new remodel, which came at a cost of a couple million - yet the computers still run as slow as shit. AWESOME TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES!

But most importantly, a lot of Boston University students take advantage of Mugar for the social opportunities. While many do go there to actually get work done, many more go and take frequent "study breaks," roaming the 3rd floor looking for people to say hello to. Many students also like to complain about the hours they spend there; however, the number of hours they are also on Facebook chat could be indicative of what they are actually doing there.

Mugar used in a sentence:
"What are you doing tonight?"
"Oh man, I'm going to Mugar, I have sooooo much work to do. I'll find you on the 3rd floor later to say hi."

"I spent all day in Mugar."
"You must have gotten so much work done!"
"No not really, everyone in our sorority was there, and so were a bunch of cute guys."

Additionally, many Boston University students like to brag about the fact that the 3rd floor of Mugar library was voted "most sexually active college library" by Playboy or something like that blah blah.
First of all, has this ever been substantiated? If so, what YEAR was it voted? I'm pretty sure that most of the people who inhabit Mugar on a regular basis, even if they clean up pretty well, generally look kind of a mess. People ask them if they've dyed their hair because they haven't showered in a significant period time, and these Mugar-ites are so cracked out they couldn't tell you what day it is, only the formula for gravity and whatever they've just memorized directly out of their orgo textbook.
Though if I do think about it, during the regular semester, Mugar after midnight becomes kind of like T's Pub for the studious Asians - there have been confirmed makeout sessions in the wee hours of the morning. Hmmm Playboy maybe you do have a point.
But this Playboy thing - I feel like saying that Mugar was named a top sexually active library is like saying that my high school English teacher was once a Playmate - it most likely happened before the Internet, so who the hell is going to be able to substantiate the claim now?
In my opinion, kudos to whoever made up this "fact" about BU - maybe it keeps the attention for 1 second of a party boy on the tour who is just going to go to Penn State anyway.

Written from the Law Library.

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