When you continue through school, everything grows larger around you. Ceilings become taller, buildings become bigger and your classmates become more numerous.

With nearly 40,000 undergraduates, finding a study space is hard as it is, and the pandemic has only made that search harder.

Still, some options are available and more may become available as the nation recovers from the pandemic.

With many classes remaining online, the University has designated certain unused classrooms as study spaces.

While the University currently plans to continue restricting building access due to COVID-19, vaccinated students and students with a recent negative test result should be allowed inside.

The University Library is also providing individual study spaces at the Undergraduate Library and the Grainger Engineering Library, although currently space is only available by appointment.

Students are limited to four bookings per week for up to four hours per day at the Undergraduate Library, just south of the Main Quad.

The Grainger Engineering Library, located on the Engineering Quad, currently offers a limited number of individual seat reservations for students wishing to use library space and are limited to one reservation per day and six reservations per week.

Additionally, spaces remain available for students in dorms. 

The Student Dining & Residential Program Learning Commons at Ikenberry remained open in the past two semesters, with the furniture rearranged to accommodate for social distancing. 

Likewise, many of the computer labs and residence libraries inside dorm halls have remained open during the pandemic after accommodating for social distancing measures.

While it may be limited right now, as the University begins to slowly reopen its doors, more study spaces will open up as well.

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