Why do college students--by some standards adults--decide to come to the library to sit together and yell? I don't get it. Our junior college has a perfectly good, usually empty, student center and WiFi. We also have study rooms. Yet the same groups of supposed adults come in almost every day to sit, study (their term, not mine), and talk loudly to one another.
This, of course, forces me to be the mean "Shhhhhh!" librarian since many of the students (okay, some of the students) using the computers nearby are researching for papers and/or taking tests for online courses. Some of these students complain--to me. What this means is the same students get chided time after time.
Do they not get enough attention at home and among their friends? Do they get joy from "pushing the librarian's buttons"? Sometimes I let the sound level build until it sounds like a stadium during the World Cup.
But mostly I ask myself why. Why is this obviously fun for them?
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i bet one blow off a vuvuzela and they will all run for the hills!! you should invest in one (please record it for me because it would be HILARIOUS!!)
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