/lit/ - Literature

Yes, because it's so much better than any of the public libraries, and free of homeless people.

Penn State has an incredible library. I love it so much.

Yes. it's fucking amazing.

Yeah I do. One of our libraries (UBC) has a robotic system so you don't have to go hunting in the stacks.

Yes, because we have two.

One is full of the textbook you need to pass the courses, the other's for the people who actually give a shit about what they're studying. In the former, you can talk as much as you want and eat. I the latter, it's silence with no food to prevent damage to the older books.

Guess which one I use.

Yes.

When it comes to literature, it's pure shit, but it has more movies than the Library of Congress, so I'm never bored.

no its full of idiots and it's rarely quiet

>>2031425
but....hunting the the stacks is when you find a bunch of other interesting books while looking for the one you actually set out to look for.

>>2031447
Yeah, I was just going to say that. I've found a lot of cool shit, both for educational and personal use, just getting lost in the book shelves.

Still a neat sounding system, care to explain how it works?

There are 46 different libraries on campus, and I use 2 of them. One is fucking massive and the other is just really quiet. Love them both.

>>2031385
I go to a black college so it's usually empty.

>>2031691
Oh, and it's humid, dark and creepy. I expect to run into a ghost at some point.

>>2031452

You submit a request for a book over the internet, from your laptop or public PC or whatever, then a robot arm thing takes your book out of the stacks, and you pick it up from a service desk. I haven't actually seen the machine at work, I'm assuming it looks something like pic related.

>>2031711
By robot are you sure you don't mean minimum wage student?

>>2031691

Tuskegee U?

>>2031691

Uggh, how do you deal with going to a university filled with black trash?

I'd sooner kill myself than walk among the savage races.

Black people go to college?

>>2031773

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities

Well now I know what schools not to hire applicants from.

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>>2031777

Not fond of their kind either.

I love my campus library. Hasn't let me down yet.


>>2031773
Yes we do.

>>2031761
Stillman College

I have to imagine that Tuskegee would be better.

>>2031773
It's also known as "prison."

>>2031786

The difference is that white people college looks good on a resume.

>>2031783

>Yes we do

Sounds suspiciously like your great Black Messiah's "Yes We Can" speeches.

>>2031775

This. There's a black college near where I live. I work in HR and I have a lot of applicants who go there. I never hire anyone from that college because none of them can write worth shit. Many of them talk in double negatives or use made up words during a fucking job interview. I am sorry, but if you want a respectable job with your agency you are going to have to throw away your black "attitude" and act civilized.

>>2031783
But Franz, I thought you were Hungarian.

i just came up with an idea for a comedy wherein a high-achieving aspie black guy finds out that spelman is us news and world report's top-ranked historically black college so he dresses up in drag to get in

there'll be a weird pseudolesbian romance subplot, tootsie-style

someone give me eleven million dollars to make this. is nick cannon doing anything next month?

>>2031790
Okay, /that/ got a laugh out of me.

>>2031796
>comedy
>black man in drag

You and people who think like you should be killed.

>>2031783
Yes we does*

>>2031795
What, you thought Lisztomania was because of his piano playing? Nah, them ladies was attracted to his big ol' black cock. The whole "Hungarian" thing was a myth started up by Wagner.

YOUR NAME...IS TOBY!

>>2031803

You didn't like the movie White Chicks?

>>2031794
what school is this? i don't doubt that it's a shitty one but your post specifically is stronger evidence of the stereotype that southerners are racist than it is of the stereotype that black colleges are for shit

>>2031807
It was cause of his fingers, not his cock.

>>2031812
Run on sentence. Negro detected.

>>2031794
>That feel when I'm the great hope of my HBCU because I can write well and speak professionally and I read books and know things.
>That feel when there's usually one person like me in each class and they usually end up going to grad school at Harvard or Yale.

>>2031812
Wanting smart employees who can form proper sentences makes you racist? We discriminate against people who come from shitty schools all the time.

>>2031807

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>>2031814

More on-topic, has anyone else developed a kind of... creeping disdain for their local library after having used their school library for so much time?

>>2031803
if aliens came to earth and asked me to present them with one product of our culture that'd convince them not to blow up this godforsaken planet i'd show them 'to wong foo'

and they'd be like "this is deeply, deeply flawed and pretty much objectively terrible, but i found myself charmed and entertained by it despite myself"

and i'd be like "that's earthling society in a nutshell, guys!"

and we'd all laugh and go out for Bud Lights

>>2031819

Every HBCU undergrad I've met went to Purdue for grad school.

>>2031824
I'll remember that.

>>2031819

You now realize Barack Hussein Obama is white but comes from an Islamic family background on his father's side

>>2031823
Oh god yes, me right here.

>>2031823

As long as mine has couches and a Starbucks I'll be happy.

My campus has a bunch of libraries. Of the two that I actually use: the first is massive and brutalist and dull, but it is quiet and it also has an absurdly large collection, which is nice. The second is very pretty and great for reading or writing papers. Unfortunately, they've changed it from the way it used to be. It used to be cool and dark, with a few tables and some nice arm-chairs and a bunch of books. No one ever went there because it was so dimly-lit and quiet, and I absolutely loved it. Now they moved the books and added a bunch of chairs and made the place all pleasant, and it's always fucking crowded. Jesus.

>>2031832
Ugh, it's so terrible isn't it? I mean, I love that there's a massive resource of free knowledge and entertainment available to the general public sitting a mere 15 minutes from my house... but knowing that you could be off somewhere else - somewhere bigger, somewhere better. It's somewhat ungrateful, I suppose, but damn.

>>2031838
>Starbucks
You kitsch bastard.

During the semester, the library on campus is where kids go to chill and talk between classes, I mean second to the student union.

>>2031843
I'm from Los Angeles. The public libraries here are essentially overrun with homeless people. They go in there and jizz on the computers and take facet showers in the bathrooms. Even the beautiful central library (where my grandmother used to work back in the 50s) has a fair homeless population using it.

As much as I love libraries, the public ones can fuck off as far as I'm concerned. I have no idea why the city pays for all the libraries to have computers anyways. It's a library, not a computer lab. All the people who are doing important writing or research have access to University libraries anyways.

Its scary and big, but they have lots of plasters for papercuts

>>2031857

>jizz on the computers

WHAT THE FUCK

>>2031857
You might say that homeless shelters serve a greater role than libraries.

>>2031862
>You might say that homeless shelters serve a greater role as libraries.

fix'd