Studying in the Closet

So where do you like to study?

The worst place for me was always the library. I always felt stuffy and stifled. North Central Bible College had a great library, but I only used it to pick up books and get out quickly. 

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Studying in the Closet

So where do you like to study?

The worst place for me was always the library. I always felt stuffy and stifled. North Central Bible College had a great library, but I only used it to pick up books and get out quickly. 

When I moved into the Orfield Apartments in downtown Minneapolis with Tim Creek and Troy Anderson, I found my study place on the couch.

Yes, that would be the hide-a-bed couch the we were "blessed" with by some friends on the third floor of a different building, so long as we would do the moving. Yikes! We made it though, and I would usually study on that couch with my feet up on a stool and books on my lap. Stylin'!

Before all of that luxury, though, was Carlson Hall--the guy's dorm.

View from the roof of Carlson Hall. Orfield Apartments are the grey buildings just left of center.

One of my dorms on Carlson Hall’s 4-East had a really deep closet. About eight feet deep! Behind the clothes rack, I put a desk and a chair in there. Add a gooseneck clip-on lamp and a fan and I had serious privacy!

Curious fellows would poke their heads in once and a while to see how things were going. That was the Neary, Neary and Nehring room: me and the Neary brothers, Dan and Randy. I won't even go into the triple decker bunk bed or the "hang soda cans from the ceiling tiles on strings of paper clips" decor.

That was the semester, actually, when I slipped, fell, and missed a month of college with head trauma. Explains a lot, I know.

Got any study spots more interesting than my 4-East closet?