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Strozier Library.

There are a lot of great places around campus that have peace and quiet to get your work done. Our main library, Strozier, has quiet floors and computers available for students. It also has study rooms where you can reserve a room with fellow classmates for a group project. There is also a Starbucks inside Strozier for the coffee lovers. If you like studying outside, there are picnic tables on Landis Green and there is also a Starbucks with outside tables. The Union also has a lot of great food places that offer outdoor seating where you can eat and study. It really depends on what your study habits are, but Florida State definitely has a lot of different places to get your work done on campus.

Strozier Library is a good place to study. Residence halls also offer study rooms and lounges. There is a Starbucks where you can study or even in the student union there are lounges or the cafeteria. In all, there are a lot of places a student can go to do work.

Strozier Library is the go-to spot to get work done. The library is absolutely huge! It has five floors, including a basement, with dozens of tables and couches. There are work rooms on the first floor with SmartBoards, dozens of computers with internet, a place to copy things and print assignments out, and easy access to hundreds upon hundreds of books and other resources. As an extra incentive, there is a Starbucks right inside the library with casual seating. Whenever I need to get work done, I go to Strozier Library! A popular place to go if you want a quieter library setting is Dirac Library. Besides libraries, each dormitory has overpasses or study rooms, and a few of the buildings on campus are open late at night to use.

The best place to get work done around Florida State depends on what kind of person you are. How you like to study and what type of environment you do best in. There is a place for every kind of person. Strozier Library has five floors. Floor one is more sociable, talking and study groups. As you go up, floor by floor, you get progressively quieter and more solitary for even the most sensitive studiers. If you are a social studier, like me, I like to sit out in Landis Green and do my homework. The sun and grass and feel of the campus always help me to concentrate and do some of my best work.

Don't be fooled by the hype! Strozier Library is called Club Stroz for a reason. The William Johnston Building is where it's at as far as studying goes. They have a Reading adn Writing center, an ACE tutoring center, a digital studio, lots of space to sit, great lighting, and study rooms with no waiting lists! It's newly renovated and right next to Suwannee dining hall. It's not that well known so the crowd is way more manageable. It's a gorgeous building with a very chill atmosphere, always my first choice for on campus studying.

There are lots of places and little nooks all over campus to get work done. While some students feel most productive in the library, I personally like to study outside on Landis Green, under a tree, especially when the weather is nice. There is also a nice lounge in the union that is nice to go to when you want to do homework.

Strozier library (or Club Stroz, as it is fondly called) is a great place to get work done. During the week it's open 24 hours from Sunday to Thursday, and opened with shorter hours on Friday and Saturday. Whenever the library is open, the Starbucks on the first floor is open, which is great for when you need a late night kick of caffeine. The top three floors are quiet zones, so no talking! Great for the super serious studier. The 1st and 2nd floors are more social, so it's easy to get study groups together there. Besides Strozier library, Dirac (the science library) is a great place to study. It is not open 24 hours, but does offer a much quieter environment than Strozier. There are several other libraries on campus including the music library, the med school library, and the Goldstein library. Finally, whenever the Union offices are open, the Bridge Lounge is open. This is a great, quiet, not too well known area to study for tests. You can talk quietly there, but it is usually silent. It's also a great place to grab a nap between classes!

There's obviously the library and on the top floor, you'll find a pencil drop will echo. But is that the best place? Not quite, for me at least. There a few little nooks I find to be more appealing and comfortable to work. Over in the Williams building, there is a courtyard that's always quiet. It's got some wooden benches and trees and you're surrounded by the buildings 4 story walls so you're in the shade at almost all times. It's usually empty and it's a very nice place to go read a book or start a draft of your final paper! Next door is Dodd Hall. and there are two little spots in this building I like to go. As you enter the main entrance, to your right will be a small set of stairs leading in to a room that seems to be modeled after a cathedral. The ceilings are high, there are plenty of wooden desks and chairs, and very few people. You've got stained glass windows all around, and a little museum around the edges with some plaques of remembered students and some FSU history. In the back of this building lies another of my favorite spots to get some studying done. There's a little circular alcove outside of Dodd's main lecture hall that's always empty if it isn't close to class time. Last is the courtyard in the science quadrangle. There's some really 'retro' architecture on the Keen building that feels like 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's that weird mixture of what looked futuristic for the time period it was made in. There's a nice fountain in the center and its surrounded by these islands of trees that have benches carved into the edges of them. It just feels real nice to sit there and enjoy the surroundings while doing some homework!

The Johnson just opened this semester. It's the design and art history building, so I definitely spend most, if not all of my time here. If you don't really like Strozier, my advice is to go to the basement of Johnson. There are individual study rooms you can get, and an added plus is that you can literally write on the walls as a study tool. It's definitely a place to check out.