Finals week is upon us. It is a magical time of year during which college students everywhere flock to the library in attempt to learn a semester's worth of knowledge in only a week. For some students, it's their first time in the library all semester, maybe ever. Others have slaved away many nights under the fluorescent lights, and are slightly annoyed to find their study space being invaded by amateurs. While these newbies wander aimlessly around the first floor, hopelessly trying to find a table, the OGs of the library are already on the third floor long tables deep into their studies. Here is a few signs that you may live in the library, whether you'd like to admit it or not.
1. You dress for the temperature of the library, not the weather outside.
While your friends are throwing on their bathing suits and sandals, you're bundling up in a sweatshirt and leggings. You are fairly certain that at least half of your tuition money goes to pay for the icy temperature of the library. And that is why we still have to pay for printing.
2. You say hello to the security guard when he or she walks by.
You are on a first name basis with most of the security guards. You ask about their families, they ask how the physiology exam you spent 12 straight hours studying for went.
3. The employees at Starbucks know your name and order.
By the time you get to the cash register, they already have your drink ready for you. They even spell your name right. Most of the time, anyway.
4. You eat all your meals at a library cubby, not at your own house.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time. You have eaten more meals at the library cubbies than you have your own apartment.
5. You take the quiet floors very seriously.
Talking is for the first floor only. If you're on the second, and especially the third floor,then you are there to get stuff done. You're not afraid to call the library security on those students who don't respect the sanctity of the quiet floors.
6. Any night you are not at the library is a special occasion.
On the rare nights you do go out, you tend to let loose because it doesn't happen that often. Not too much though because you have to be back in the library first time tomorrow morning.
7. You have shown up to the library hungover on more than one occasion.
Even if you would rather be literally anywhere else in the world on a Saturday morning, your homework is not going to do itself.
8. Your friends always text you when they are going to the library because they know you will be there.
Some of them do not even bother with formalities anymore, just a simple, "Where are you?" because let's be honest, they already know.
9. You have taken a nap in the library at some point.
Whether it was on purpose or an accident, you have taken a snooze in the library before. You'd be surprised at ow comfortable a textbook feels at 2 a.m.
10. You know all the cold and hot spots in the library.
You almost feel sorry for all the shivering students of the third floor who didn't know to bring a sweater.
11. You've seen your studying pay off.
Even though it's stressful at the time, at the end of the semester, your GPA has never looked better.
