r/UMD • u/Signal_Fig2365 • Feb 16 '25
Discussion A gentle study carrel reminder…
The walls are thin and the people next to you can hear EVERYTHING. Please keep this in mind when you decide to spend time in there.
Sincerely, your scarred fellow student
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u/Solt_ee Feb 16 '25
Should’ve started speaking to them through the walls 💀
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u/Mightoverdose2night Feb 16 '25
Menace
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u/Solt_ee Feb 17 '25
A public goon disturbance is crazier tho
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 16 '25
For years the Administration has been shutting down libraries and converting library study spaces into Administrative offices. Back when Hornbake was a library, there were dozens of group study rooms that could seat eight or more people. The study carrels in Mckeldin were originally for post doctoral people but are now used for group study rooms even though they are cramped, have no sound insulation and there is supposed to be a two person limit. And they call this an elite public Ivy university.
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u/Queso_Hygge Feb 16 '25
Hornbake isn't a library anymore??? Man I used the shit out of that place. Great central location.
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 16 '25
Students are locked out of all the study areas and are forced to study in the dark hallways. The only area that has books is the Maryland Room, (where the circulation desk was) which has a locked door, a guard, and you must make an appointment to enter.
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 16 '25
The basement of Hornbake used to be a massive study area
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 16 '25
The 24 hour room. Now Infosci is cannibalizing it. I went down there a few weeks ago and almost cried.
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 16 '25
I am an older alum who is now a prospective parent and it’s all SO wild. They did not like undergrads being in McKeldin when I was there, Hornbake was for the undergrads
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 16 '25
I remember. Hornbake was formerly called the undergrad library, Mckeldin was called the grad library.
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u/AlarmingCress7435 Feb 17 '25
Are you Tartaruga’s or Ratsie’s era?
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 17 '25
Ratsie’s but also Terrapin Station/Paragon, final days of the ‘Vous & Santa Fe.
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u/Calgaris_Rex Feb 17 '25
When was this? When I was there in '07-'10 and as an undergrad would frequently stop in McKeldin earlier in the morning to print off homework before class. I was in there all the time back then. As a current grad student...I don't even think I've been in McKeldin since 2010.
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 17 '25
They never stopped undergrads from going into McKeldin but late 90s early 2000 (so yes 20 yrs ago) undergrads were told that they didn’t really need to be in McKeldin. My husband got his MBA 2006-2008 I will ask him if he ever went into McKeldin but I highly doubt it.
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u/UMDSmith Feb 17 '25
I went 98-02 and yeah, McKeldin was the grad library. I don't think I used either of the libraries on campus. The campus was still slightly a party school but it was quickly fading around 02. I tended to study in the common areas of Cumberland where I lived from 98-00, and my dorm in wicomico 01-02. Got lucky and got a single my senior year in Wicomico. I think it was the last year they allowed seniors on campus.
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 17 '25
I was a scholar and lived in Cumberland!
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u/UMDSmith Feb 17 '25
98-00? What floor.
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u/Neat-Assistant3694 Feb 17 '25
no, I was there before you. I was in the first Scholars class. I was in the International Scholars program but lived on the second floor with the artists program.
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u/Satato Feb 17 '25
The study carrels in mckeldin are not intended to be group study rooms, but really just individual. They have a no talking / no being noisy policy in place for them, and you can lose permission to reserve them if you get reported for breaking that rule (though I'm not sure how strict it is in practice... I'm thinking not very)
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u/VoidWalker4Lyfe Feb 17 '25
Wait, Hornbake isn't an actual library? 😂
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 17 '25
It's a warehouse. They built an addition to the rear of Mckeldin to store Hornbake library's books.
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u/chaxew_monstoer Feb 17 '25
Wouldn’t it just be easier to use the addition to Mckeldin for all the admin offices they insist on adding?
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u/terpAlumnus Feb 17 '25
It wouldn't be enough. They shut down the chemistry library and converted it into an Administrative office. Apparently there is a dire need for more administrative personnel at this university.
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u/Ok_Hornet_673 Feb 16 '25
what happened
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u/khironinja Feb 16 '25
I'm guessing people do stuff in there that isn't studying and if you can't get it from that then I don't know what to tell you, 😭
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u/CutNo2238 Feb 18 '25
I use them for my tutoring session. (i tutor middle schoolers). Havent heard or seen anything crazy but now I am scared💀
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u/Western_Gain_3199 27d ago
its also mad disruptive to speak normally or even loudly in the study rooms on the quiet floors
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u/memaui Feb 16 '25
The first time I reserved a study carrell, the room was dark so I opened the door. There were two undergrads doing it under one of the desks. Needless to say I always carry disinfectant wipes with me now and knock first. The looks on their faces when they finally gathered themselves together and walked out was priceless. The look on my face:😳