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Last year, we tried to capture the aftermath of the P-rade in all its trashy resplendence, the empty husks of 30-racks, the crushed cans of Bud Light shining like so many diamonds. This year’s photographic evidence of Reunions excess comes from Whitman Library. We’ve already introduced you to the squalor of the thesis hermit, but this is, uh, something else. A Sunday morning tiptoe through Whitman Library revealed the following:

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It’s a bad and blurry picture because I struggled to find an angle that could capture it all: more than 50 boxes of Old World Pizza, washed down by several dozen cups of beer in varying states of depletion.

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Whitman Library is a dimly-lit den of stress and dark wood. There’s a palpable tension in the air, the bleary-eyed malaise of people on their academic grind. Now, right in the thick of thesis season, both occupancy and tension are pretty high. And when it’s crunch time I guess you have to claim your territory. I guess you become a hermit in this sad, sad place.

Some of them stake out their domain by cementing it over with impenetrable stacks of books.

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Strategic mess-making at its finest

Others have more brutish methods.

Gross

Few hermitages can boast 4 computers

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