“Studying”: Not just for Lauinger anymore!

First, the bad news: Vox will be blogging on a reduced schedule during study days, finals, and winter break. We’ll do our best to run three posts a day, but finals may intervene—besides, the student body just won’t be doing as many delightful and interesting things over the next few weeks as it normally does.

Now for the “good” news: as Lauinger Library will be flirting with its maximum occupancy levels for the next thirteen days, Vox has a round up of the various other study spots on campus suggested by the University and favored by Voice staffers.

Our staff suggests:

• The Car Barn. Specifically, the graduate student lounge on the second floor. Former Vox editor Juliana Brint writes has “lots of tables and couches, tons of outlets, [and] multiple vending machines. It’s got its own microwave, and it’s right near one of the nicest bathrooms on campus.” And one of those vending machines sells energy drinks.

• The Hariri Building. Aside from probably having the highest working-to-non-working outlet ratio of any building on campus, it’s shiny, clean, and within I-hope-no-one-steals-my-laptop walking distance from Uncommon Grounds and Vital Vittles.

• Off-campus wi-fi hotspots. When Georgetown just can’t hold all of us, it’s time to venture off campus to places like the Barnes and Noble on M Street, which have food, tables, and wireless.James McGrory suggested a host of wi-fi abundant locales around the District back in August, like Baked & Wired (near B & N) and Crepes-a-Go-Go. (See a trend? These places may be a bit of a hike, but they serve up delicious study snacks).

• Blommer Science Library. Located on the third floor of the Reiss Science Center.

Check out Georgetown’s suggestions, with classroom reservation links after the jump!

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Hostage to homework

We all joke about living in Lau during finals, but apparently one student took that a little too literally.  Behold, the most amusing DPS blotter of the year, via the Hoya:

Tuesday May 5
Missing Person-Found, 3600 Block of Reservoir Rd. NW, 12:57 p.m.
The complainant filed a missing persons report regarding no contact since 05-01-09 from her roommate. The roommate was located on campus in good health. She had been completing a research paper.

No matter how poorly your finals went, at least you left the library often enough that your roommate didn’t suspect that you disappeared.

The trick is making it into a useful series of tubes

Usually the combination of the finals and the internet results in bad, bad things. Things like spending 36 hours on the computer and finding you have a grand total of 250 words written. But the internet isn’t all time-suck! Check out Vox’s list of internet tools that will actually boost your finals productivity.

First and foremost, for the distracted: there are a few solutions to keep you from using the internet as a glorious tool of free-roaming mischief, and instead to stay on task for that deadly 20 pager you’ve only just begun. Actually, within the realms of pages you’d find on google, the internet also offers a solution for your scatterbrain. Dr. Wicked has a prescription for your internet hyperactivity, and it isn’t a few doses of Adderall: Write-or-Die. Just let this internet-based program know that you want to complete a certain number of pages in a certain amount of time, and if you don’t live up to your potential, your screen will start flashing and your speakers will resonate with terrible music. Apparently you don’t want to piss this program off.

More helpful programs after the jump!

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