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Step 1: Be Confident. <\/b><\/p>\n
Using a group room for individual study is an exercise in confidence. Maybe you belong there, maybe you don\u2019t. Fake it till you make it. If someone asks, \u201c Step 2: Create Imaginary Friends. <\/b><\/p>\n Bring an extra jacket and cover the other half of the table in pieces of scrap paper and old problem sets. If someone tries to kick you out by pulling the \u201cgroups only\u201d card, claim your friend is taking a study break or crying in the bathroom. Works every time.<\/p>\n Step 3: Beg. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cPlease don\u2019t make me go to the second floor. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n Step 4: Lick Everything.<\/b><\/p>\n If it works with food, it works with study rooms. Oh, you want this chalkboard? Too bad I claimed it with my saliva, bitches!<\/p>\n Step 5: Accept Defeat. <\/b><\/p>\n Alright, so an OChem TA and his 15 students booked this room in advance an entire week ago. So what. Gather up your belongings and the fragments of your shattered pride and wander back into the body of the Reg. <\/p>\n Step 6: Repeat.<\/b><\/p>\n After 20 minutes of aimless drifting, you will eventually find another empty room to colonize. Why learn from your mistakes when you can simply continue to repeat them? Besides, there\u2019s no way this one is also booked, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Morgan Pantuck Feb. 18, 2016 Step 1: Be Confident. Using a group room for individual study is an exercise in confidence. Maybe you belong there, maybe you don\u2019t. Fake it till you make it. If someone asks, \u201cDdo you have this room reserved?\u201d, simply raise one eyebrow and ask, \u201cDdo you?\u201d Your refusal to back down will probably make them give up and leave. Step 2: Create Imaginary Friends. Bring an extra jacket and cover the other half of the table in pieces of scrap paper and old problem sets. If someone tries to kick you out by pulling the \u201cgroups only\u201d card, claim your friend is taking a study break or crying in the bathroom. Works every time. Step 3: Beg. \u201cPlease don\u2019t make me go to the second floor. Please.\u201d Step 4: Lick Everything. If it works with food, it works with study rooms. Oh, you want this chalkboard? Too bad I claimed it with my saliva, bitches! Step 5: Accept Defeat. Alright, so an OChem TA and his 15 students booked this room in advance an entire week ago. So what. Gather up your belongings and the fragments of your shattered pride and wander back into the body of the Reg. Step 6: Repeat. After 20 minutes of aimless drifting, you will eventually find another empty room to colonize. Why learn from your mistakes when you can simply continue to repeat them? Besides, there\u2019s no way this one is also booked, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}