Finals...

Imagine: it's the end of the semester. Finals period. You have papers, exams, sleep deprivation, and caffeine jitters. Oh, and you're at an Ivy League school.

You decide to go to the library to get serious about finishing your work.

You assume that you will find like-minded, let's-get-down-to-business-(but-let's-not-use-that-phrase-because-we'll-wind-up-YouTubing-Mulan-clips-for-an-hour-if-we-do) students at the library, right?

I mean, finals, library, "prestigious school"... It sounds like a pretty clear-cut formula for STUDYING, right?

Well, if you go to Brown, you're wrong.

This is the actual scene: it's the end of the semester. Finals period. You have papers, exams, sleep deprivation, and caffeine jitters. After you waste time on the two new creepy-yet-grossly-addicting gossip sites that just been launched on your campus (BrownFML and Spotted At Brown, I'm looking at you!) you pack up all your things and face the Providence cold. You hope to find a quiet library with conditions that are more than conducive to studying.

Instead, you either find yourself in the middle of a rave or a mob of nudes handing out pube-covered donuts.

Let me say that again. You go to the library, and you find yourself in the middle of a rave or a mob of naked people with donuts.

Now, I didn't experience the rave first-hand, but I have witnessed two Naked Donut Runs in my Brown career thus far, and while I could not find any pictorial evidence, I can tell you that a huge group of students really do run through the libraries -- completely naked -- and hand out donuts. And it. is. distracting.

I was in the wrong library at the time of the SciLi Rave, but I did find a video, so here it is via YouTube user mraymond.



So, what I want to know:

Do all college kids lose their minds and make their libraries this distracting during finals, or is that just my lovely school?