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Study Spots

Top 6 Spots to Study While at Queen’s

Like it or not, you’ll be spending a fair bit of your time at Queen’s studying, and sometimes your rez room with eight million distractions just doesn’t cut it. We’ve compiled a list of the top ten greatest spots on and off to campus to study.
1. Fireside Reading Room (in Stauffer Library)
Located on the second [...]

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The Grad Club: For Drinking, Studying and Everything In Between

Right on the Queen’s University campus, at the corner of Union and Barrie, stands The Grad Club. It’s two old Victorian mansions that have been converted into three floors of fabulous bar space and one of the best music venues in Kingston.
On both the first floor and the second there are bars where you can [...]

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Kingston Frotenac Public Library

The town library at 130 Johnson Street is another good bet to get lots done and to be able to take out fun books. It didn’t dawn on me until third year that there are no fluffy fun books to read on campus. If you are in the mood for a good thriller or even [...]

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Bracken Library

This is the health sciences library and is a smaller and quieter library than the others.

Other ideas:

It’s located in Botterell Hall on Stuart Street and provides a great escape from the frantic Stauffer and Douglas crowds.

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The Law Library

To be honest, I’ve never studied here. In fact, I can count the number of books I took out at university on both my hands (shh). However, I do know that this place to get lots done, and also pick up a cute law student if you are so inclined.
The law library (aka the William [...]

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Douglas Library

Douglas is the Engineering and Science library, and it’s where the medium to hard core studiers go. You don’t have to get dolled up to go here. In fact, if you walk in in stillettos you’ll probably be dragged out. Douglas has a sweatpants or Eng jacket only rule, unwritten, but it’s there.
Don’t attempt to eat, [...]

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Stauffer Library

Affectionately known as Club Stauff, Stauffer is the place to see and be seen on campus. People often ‘dress up’ to study, err people watch, here. Because of, or despite of this (depending on which way you swing), Stauffer is a great library. It’s new, clean, and is an overal great facility.
The higher you go the quieter [...]

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Queen’s Libraries: An Overview

Queen’s has some amazing libraries, their collections are immense and their architecture stunning at times. Chances are you’ll be spending a fair amount of your time at Queen’s holed up in a study carrel here, paying your overdue book fees, or frantically tracking down that required reading.

Food is allowed in the libraries in small quantities, [...]

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Awesome Study Spots

Like it or not, you’ll be spending a fair bit of your time at Queen’s studying, and sometimes your ghetto house with eight million distractions just doesn’t cut it. We’ve compiled a list of some of the greatest spots on and off to campus to study.
Fireside Reading Room
Located on the second floor of Stauffer Library [...]

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Best Kept Secret: Mac-Corry Study Room

Looking for a new study spot on campus where you can get lots of work done without staring off into the great lululemon and ugg boot abyss that is Stauffer library? Well, in Mac Corry, the most glorious of all brutalist nightmares, lies a great study room, aptly named the ‘Mac-Corry Study Room’.
On the first [...]

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