The Sound of Silence

 

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While the Cheng library may not look like the ideal place to experience a quiet time, a place to connect with one’s self or bring down mountainous assignments that feel impossible to complete, one of the study rooms on the mezzanine floor seems to do the trick for me.

 On the ground floor, the footsteps of the librarian walking between shelves or students whispering and laughing intermittently, the printers working, and random phones ringing are all enough distraction but the minute I secure a room to myself in one of the study rooms above the ground floor and shut the door behind me, it feels as though every other thing is shut out. Perhaps the walls are soundproof, that is yet to be known but what is known is the silence that occupies the room behind the closed doors.

 The day you run out of luck in securing a study room, then you have to deal with the sound of noise in the main or general library, and that is why I look forward to the fall semester when campus will be  fully open to enable me  explore other places that can speak to me in silence but for now, somewhere behind a closed door in the Cheng library does it for me.😀