In the last couple weeks, there’s been a couple noteworthy doodles on the blackboards in the Crerar the study rooms that strike me as a bit creepier than anything I’ve seen in the corresponding A-level spaces of the Reg, or elsewhere on campus. The first was in one of the green rooms on the third [...]
If you asked the admissions office how to represent the relationship between UChicago and its students, you’d probably hear some beautiful and poetic cliches involving drinking from fountains of knowledge, breathing in the sweet scent of wisdom, basking in the glow of collegiality among some of the greatest minds in the country.
If you look at [...]
There’s a certain nook in the Zar Room of Crerar science library usually blocked from view by whiteboards that are often covered in interesting writing. I’ve found “Fight for survival PhD“, a confession of low-grade panic (with a helpful suggestion), linear algebra gone wrong, plans for a policy memo.
Recently, though, I found it covered in [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Korean isn’t in the top five for non-English languages with the most graffiti, but it’s well-represented for a language with relatively few students. (See A look at non-English graffiti for details.) I can’t even decipher the Korean alphabet, so David Yung Ho Kim and Jessica Choi have helpfully translated the graffiti I’ve been accumulating over [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
Over the last month, I’ve come to realize that my initial assessment of Crerar’s lack of graffiti probably didn’t take into account the cyclical nature of library graffiti. It’s exploded since then, leaving me to think that Crerar graffiti might be washed clean in December, just like the Reg.
Further trips into the stacks have shown [...]
As noted previously, Crerar isn’t exactly a hotbed for graffiti. Fun things show up on whiteboards sometimes (though, no doubt, this penis, for instance, was part of a legitimate core bio review session) but compared to the Reg, there’s not so much there.
One day last year, that changed. A student covered the Crerar elevator with [...]
While Regenstein is the biggest library at the University of Chicago, it’s only one of five* libraries on campus. My vague impression has been that most of the “good stuff”, from a graffiti perspective, is at the Reg, but I’ve never actually looked into the graffiti at the other libraries. As a student, I’d set [...]
Fresh graffiti