Keg in the Reg
During my tenure at the University of Chicago, I was virtually alone in my attempt at total avoidance of the Regenstein Library. Despite it being the social nexus of the entire school, I could not bring myself to study within its bleak, brutalist walls. On floors where there were people I knew, I was too distracted. In quieter parts, I was too creeped out to work. Sitting directly above where Enrico Fermi set off the first nuclear reaction, I was sure I heard the ghosts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki whispering in my ear each time I opened up my copy of the Critique of Judgment.
But if I had studied in the Reg, I would have seen plenty of cubicle graffiti. Quinn Dombrowski, a library staffer, has collected 703 examples of this in her lovely Flickr set. I think this one represents the healthiest approach to studying at the U of C:
[via gapers block via la times blog]