This is the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. It was ranked 3rd best college library by the Princeton Review. This is also where I spend most of my time in life. It is a very nice library as libraries go but...it is still a library and you still have to be quiet. Not only do I choose to spend many late hours here filling my brain with information that I will then be required to regurgitate as an evaluation of my supposed learning but I also have chosen this place as my source of income and the effects of which I am only now beginning to see. Pros: I have access to secret library employee lounges where I feast on countless vending machine pseudo-foods, I don't use gas driving to work, I study more (most important). Cons: I am always on campus, I never leave campus, I live/work/study/eat on campus!!! WHAT WAS I THINKING! The conclusion I have come to is this is my life. I am student. Campus is my life right now and sometime I think maybe it will be worth it and I will look back and hopefully remember the good times. This is an amazing place. i.e.
Princeton College Review 2008 for BYU
Rank/Category
No. 1 — Stone-cold sober (good)
No. 1 — Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution (wha?)
No. 1 — Got milk? (low beer consumption) (- wait...isn't that the same as the first)
No. 1 — Scotch and soda, hold the scotch (low hard liquor consumption) (how many of these categories are there??)
No. 1 — Students pray on regular basis/most religious students
No. 2 — Don't inhale (low marijuana usage reported) (NUMBER 2!?!)
No. 3 — Best college library (all right HBLL!!)
No. 4 — Students most nostalgic for Ronald Reagan/lean right politically
No. 11 — Alternative lifestyle not an alternative (low acceptance of gay community)
No. 12 — Town-gown relations are great
No. 14 — Happiest students (I bet the didn't do this survey at 11:45pm when everyone leaves campus with their heads hung low at the thought of doing it all over again tomorrow-oh wait, thats just me)
No. 17 — Everyone plays intramural sports
No. 19 — Best quality of life
No. 20 — School runs like butter (administration gets high marks)
Source: Princeton Review's "Best 366 Colleges" 2008 edition
Ok, so just to prove that I don't actually spend every waking (and sometimes sleeping) moment at school here are some pictures of my birthday parties.
(Borders Books-waiting for a table, Happy Sumo, impromptu dance party)
