From my procrastination walks around campus, these are what I think the most notable term agnostic study spots are.
The Cambridge Arch Building
- Say you “forgot your key” for entry (might only work for engineering students?)
- Usually empty
DC
- The desks by the window are the best
- I hate the basement
- Can always study at DC Bytes after closing
- Full during exams
DP
- Study bar on the first floor by the cafe is nice because of the windows
- Upper floors are silent study and have cubicles next to tiny windows
- Basement sucks
E7/E5
- Bars by the windows on the 3rd to 5th floors
- Tables from the 4th to the 6th floor
- Book a study room through the WATiMake office (for MME only)
- WATO office on floor 5 (I’m a key holder now :))
RCH
- Tables on 2nd and 1st floor
- Lecture halls are usually free after 5pm
- Great for a social study
QNC
- Busy during regular study terms but nice lighting and whiteboard walls
- Basement is usually free is the first and second floors are taken
- Lecture halls are unlocked
- Nice 7th floor bathrooms (“the pristine pissers”)
SLC
- Harder to find room to study
- Big group study areas (by reservation and walk in)
- 2nd floor has many study spaces (rooms, egg chairs, tables above PAC)
EV3 (7/10)
- Nice tables and window bars on the 3rd and 4th floor but the window bars have immovable seats that hurt my back and they don’t have AC outlets
- Empty lecture halls
- HUGE and smaller study rooms on the 4th floor
- We are allowed to study in conference rooms if they are free
- Far away
- Nice atmosphere
MC
- Higher floors have nice corner tables spaced around the floor (lower floors get busy)
- Feels like a CS kids dungeon
M3
- Starting in the second floor there are tables to the right of the staircase with black board walls
- Nice windows
- 1st floor has a study lounge
EV1
- Nice when the weather is good because of the courtyard (summer might go hard here)
HH
- AFM side has a study room in the second floor, and a study bar on the first
- Seating is kind of uncomfy and it gets warm
- The lecture hall side has big nice wooden lecture halls
- More of a group study spot but if you are alone and have headphones it’s fine
- Either way they’re so big that people don’t really matter
- No charing ports
- CPA lounge on the second floor 🔥
- Around exam / midterm season they hold 1st year seminars in the lecture halls which come with free food lol
E2
- MTE 241 lab (might expire after 2B)
- There’s a printer
SCH
- Second floor cafeteria is usually not busy
- Busy during lunch
OPT
- Has a Starbucks and nice study bars on the ground floor
- Need to explore more
PAS
- Largely empty lecture halls
- Decent computer lab in 1098
EIT
- Bar tables on the first floor
- Interesting stuff to look at during breaks
- Generally a cool building
- Unlocked lecture halls with very nice lighting (RBC lecture theatre)
- Second floor cafe tables
- A single table on the third floor
PHYS
- Two undergraduate study rooms in 153
- One study room has pretty cool wooden booths adjacent to a water bottle fountain!
The EV1 courtyard in 12/2023 at nightqq