Modern ‘Yale Man’ measured in cups of Bass coffee
It’s taken me five months, but now I can admit it: I love the new Bass Library. Everyone does. The place is always packed. You walk in and find a trendy café waiting for you, with all of your friends there somehow. Each has her iPod and his organic coffee. Each has a book on Chinese politics in one hand, a pen in the other and is flirting with an attractive student across the table. If you really want, you can go into the library itself: sleek corners, grand stairs, shining wood, studious silence. I’ve even heard of professors descending into that brand new cave in order to study with the...
i think all the mentions of silence in the library overlook the annoyance of the persistent beeping from the card-swipe machines at the entrance. doesn't this noise bother anyone else? is it really necessary for those machines to function?
there is no way the interior of bass can be described as silent.
You kind of read my mind on the eery silence factor:
The one thing i miss from the old CCL is that the new CCL (haha)is just WAY TOO QUIET - the old CCL was more open to people like me who like to chat quietly while studying as opposed to the hardcore studiers who sit in scary silence in SML reading rooms/stacks.
I hope the life of the place returns soon and not just to the cafe area.
the game.