Abby Peschges/Winonan

With Baldwin closed, our study location options are a bit limited on campus. There’s the promise of more study areas for students, but as a senior I won’t get the pleasure of using them.

In the interim, I have been forced to make room for other students in my usual study space.

As a frequent visitor of the library, I’ve noticed quite the influx of traffic. I’m glad to see that more students are using the benefits of the library, but it has really put a kink in my usual study habits.

Normally, the different floors of the library match what kind of a study mode I need to be in. The first floor is for projects least demanding on my attention, and when I am on the third floor, it means I have two papers due tomorrow.

With the higher number of students in the library, I’ve been forced up to the third floor during the evenings no matter my study mood.

This would be fine, except for the lack of a necessity for any study session: outlets.

There isn’t much of an issue if you’re in one of the study rooms or in a study carrel.

But I feel trapped in a carrel and want to spread out my research, paper drafts and notes on the table around me.

So sitting at one of the tables after a few hours, my computer slowly loses life, and there isn’t an outlet in sight.

Because of the lack of outlets on the table, I am forced to leave my computer sitting next to the wall across the aisle or have my cord strung out where people are trying to walk.

Either way makes it difficult to complete my assignments and results in people giving me glaring looks for intruding their path or asking me if it’s my computer that has been left neglected against the wall.

I love the library, and I’ve used its many resources, but with Baldwin closed all year, I would appreciate the limited space we do have to be a bit more accommodating to the demands we as students face.

Contact Abby at [email protected]