For me, it’s a real disturbance, and I’ve had to find ways to handle it. And anyone who has ever had a roommate, tried to read in a café next to a screaming child, or attempted to hammer out a draft in a public space beside someone chatting on the phone knows that the smallest noise can be distracting. After candidacy, you can sign up for a private carrel. Until you achieve candidacy, you can only get an open study carrel, which means you’ll most likely be sharing a little alcove with one other graduate student (in my case, one of my dear friends). It’s really convenient for when I don’t feel like working from home or toting an armful of books home from campus on the train. My university has a great system where graduate students can sign up for their own study carrels, dispersed throughout the towers that house the stacks. I mean, I’m a really unreasonable, hypercritical, expects-too-much-of-others curmudgeon. I’ll just get it out there: I’m a complete grump when it comes to noise in the library. ![]() ![]() You can find her on Twitter at or at her blog, dighistorienne. Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University.
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