Places to study

jd83

So during the year is the library study desks in the hamilton always busy or is it just before exams. Can anyone reccomend any good quiet places on the campus to work around the hamilton building?

Jammyc

jd83 wrote: »

So during the year is the library study desks in the hamilton always busy or is it just before exams. Can anyone reccomend any good quiet places on the campus to work around the hamilton building?

From what I saw last year, during exam time, Hamilton is pretty packed. Get there early (8-9ish) and you would probably get a spot.

Regardless of it being packed or not, it's generally fairly quiet. You'll get the odd phone buzzing in someones bag or a windows startup tone, but during exam time everyone (including myself) is (rightfully) hypersensitive to noise.

jd83

Cool thanks and what about places like 24 hr computer rooms would they be quiet enough or would there be lots of people about.

Sir Ophiuchus

Good places depend upon the time of day, but here are a few around the Hamilton:

- The downstairs Mac computer rooms. Hardly ever anyone there on days classes aren't held there.

- The Goldsmith Hall common room. Not at lunchtime.

- Sometimes, the society rooms in Goldsmith Hall, if it's a quiet day. Even better if you're able to sign out a key.

- The Physics computer room in the SNIAM.

- Hamilton library, upstairs, near the back. Pick your time right and it's very quiet.

jd83

Thanks ill have to go exploring to find all these places

antiselfdual

Up the stairs and turn left in the Hamilton library will be especially quiet this year as the 10-15 TPs who used to study there in bulk have graduated... I'll miss my seat

Craguls

Only time there really is competition for a place in the library is during exam time. Hamilton library is always dead quiet, I've heard bad things about the Lecky but the others are also fine from my experience.

bythewoods

The Hamilton's always pretty quiet apart from exam times tbh. It's a bit dingy though (although it's been done up, so it might be actually nice now!)

Don't restrict yourself to the Hamilton end- the Ussher library's nice and bright and spacious, and I'm a fan of the Psychology/ History part of the Berkeley too.

green909

Usher basement can be very quiet and there are couches (well sort of) there are no windows though.

Berkley is good but can be very cold in depths of winter

snappieT

If you become a keyholder for a society room, they can be very useful in the evenings and out of term.

Raedwald

Top floor of the Berkeley in the Hist and Psychology can be very quiet and would not be that busy for most of the year.

Ussher basement and top floor are also very nice places to study as they tend to be dead quiet and in the basement you can go for a nap on the sofas.

devinejay

I always found the Hamilton to be one of the noisier libraries, it's so big and open tat if anyone talks you can hear it miles away. Lately I've been using the first floor of the Berkeley, the OPUB section. On the right as you go up the stairs it's mostly shelving, so there's a few nice little isolated spots with single desks you can use.

Denerick

I found a fantastic place to study in the Berkely library. Its well away from all of the hacks and cretins; its quiet, its serene, its rather beautiful. Needless to say that I won't be broadcasting it on the internet.

Larianne

antiselfdual wrote: »

Up the stairs and turn left in the Hamilton library will be especially quiet this year as the 10-15 TPs who used to study there in bulk have graduated... I'll miss my seat

Oh so that's who you people were! :pac:

Hamilton is pretty quiet other than the few weeks coming up to exams. I started wearing earplugs towards the end. Worked a treat.

I also studied in the MAC room in the 24hr computer rooms when the library was closed. You'd get one or two people talking for a bit but most were in there to study too. Earplugs, again, were a great help here.

Something about the 24hr study space I didn't like. I only went there twice but I always got distracted.

fh041205

Just steer clear of the MathSoc room. Its the single worst place in the world to get anything done. But its good craic...

A Neurotic

I miss the 24hr study space quite badly. Only time I ever got anything done was in there after midnight, hepped up on coffee and completely focused. Just can't get that vibe at home

jd83

A Neurotic wrote: »

I miss the 24hr study space quite badly. Only time I ever got anything done was in there after midnight, hepped up on coffee and completely focused. Just can't get that vibe at home

Why is that gone now. There are still 24 hour computer labs though?

Craguls

jd83 wrote: »

Why is that gone now. There are still 24 hour computer labs though?

It's still there, he's just back in Tipp.

jd83

Ah right. Im more of a night person always found it easier to study and read at night than the morning.

mardybumbum

I always found the 24 hour mac room a great place for the aul study.
Bathroom nearby and access to coffee/chocomilk.
I find it difficult to concentrate when it is very quiet, so I appreciate the ambient hum of the computers.

evercloserunion

jd83 wrote: »

Why is that gone now. There are still 24 hour computer labs though?

The 24hr room in th Ussher is still open. Getting a bit busy in the day now because of repeats but empty at night.