Great view, great lighting—plus, being surrounded by plants can trick you into thinking you’re studying outside. Especially when you’re two lattes deep and you have that exam-mode studying fugue going on. The wooden ledge is wide enough to support a laptop and if you’re between 6’1” and 5’1” you’re at a workable height to type without looking like a 21st century mad scientist.

I speak of laptops because I’m among those terminally bound to their screen at the library, but you can read and take notes with relative ease too.

There’s been a lot of studies suggesting that sitting down for too long is liable to bring you to an early end. HowToGeek has a terrifying infographic that can explain it better than I. Anyway, food for thought for the health-conscious scholar.

If you do take this idea, don’t toss garbage into the planters. Very rude.

The Libraries also strives to provide the types of study space you emphasize in student surveys. Many of you want space to collaborate in groups. Last year 7 additional group study rooms were established on the second floor of Scott behind the Learning Commons help desks. Other students are seeking quiet and silent places in the library to work. There are a few areas in the libraries that are deemed quiet study i.e. no talking – Steacie has an area by the windows, Frost’s second floor and the 4th floor of Scott are three areas that can be very quiet. It is probably not widely known that Bronfman has a silent study room as does Scott. Our goal is to expand the number of study spaces on 4th and 5th floor Scott Library and declare both floors quiet.