#chemistry library

[iowacitypast]

Students reading at tables in the Chemistry Library, The University of Iowa, 1930s

Creator: Kent, Frederick W.

Source: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_14221

[smilesandvials]

lmld-difthoi said: Mine is depressing, since we hardly have access to journals. ---  Our digitized library is extensive and includes most all journals. We can also borrow from every other library in the country (hurrah!) It's something the main library pays for. However, the chemistry library is a separate room in a separate building that is just old, old, old, old, old, OLD references. There is encyclopedia worth of Ligand Field Energy Diagrams next to me. 

I've seen like two people actually use this library for actual reference because the digital age and all that.  It's mostly dark-ish and full of old stuff in here. Quaint, or depressing. Very fine line. 

[pizzanotpatriarchy]

I basically live here now.

I have my own drawer. 

I have been leaving clothes here, and always books and loads of papers and even my laptop sometimes. 

I also keep a mug here, plenty of tea and hot chocolate (although I didn't have a spoon until tonight), a water bottle and/or cup for water, and peanuts and popcorn. 

There are often time periods of my life where I find myself in this building, on this floor much more often than in my own room. 

I live on the third floor of Copley. Chemistry Library, last door on the right. The top brown drawer is mine. 

[pizzanotpatriarchy]

IT'S SO WARM IN HERE

JUST ANOTHER REASON THAT CHEMISTRY IS THE BEST MAJOR . FUCKING BUM ASS CHEMISTRY LIBRARY AND AN ENTIRE FLOOR TO OURSELVES. DOES ANY OTHER MAJOR HAVE THEIR OWN FLOOR?! I THINK NOT !!! 

/I'm not sorry

[pizzanotpatriarchy]

Is it strange that

I would rather be naked for an hour putting on scabies cream in the Copley bathroom than in my own? xD I'm pretty sure the scabies are gone, but my hands are still itchy so I want to make sure and use the cream one last time. Also I won't be around Sam and Matt a lot anymore so we won't be giving it to each other again and again... 

It's just that I would be afraid that someone would need to use the bathroom, even if  I did it at a ridiculous hour like 3 or 4. The thought of being inconsiderate scares me. I know that if I did it in Copley, there is no chance of anyone needing the bathroom. Almost all of the Chemistry majors are guys, and I have never seen another female on this floor during these hours. When there are people using the Chem Library at silly hours, like when there were three others in this tiny room the week before exams, they are all guys. Every time. 

Ugh but now Jung Hee thinks she can use this room because I do and because she asked Dr. Thoburn and he said yes. V.V I just don't want her in here when I am, because she will just talk the whole time and I will PUNCH HER like I love her and all but not when I am TRYING TO DO FUCKING CHEMISTRY

But actually I really feel more at home here than anywhere else. <3 My own floor in my own little science world. 

[pizzanotpatriarchy]

I think that

my problem with general procrastination comes from the fact that I HATE to do things with other people around. It's why trying to start working out at the Brock is so hard for me. It's not that I care what other people think, I am just so much more comfortable by myself. I need to spread my shit out. I need to be alone. I hate working in the library because there are other people there. Sometimes I can find a spot without many people, but not usually during the day, and it closes far too early for my pleasing. I can never count on the study room, either in Conrad or the library because there may be people there but there may not be...

I am forever grateful to Dr. Thoburn for giving me the code for the Chemistry Library because without it I would not feel as great while doing homework. It feels like I own this whole floor, this whole building! Nobody is here at such hours. And even when Stanley or another Chem major is here, it still feels very comfortable. I just wish that I could feel this way during the day, because then my sleep wouldn't get so fucked up and I would be a bit healthier. Perhaps I will figure out something one day.