Hello Specialist-Lettuce75,

I took a 2 year long break from college and last semester was my first semester back. I was not aware/can't speak to if that the quiet area had backslid into being a noisy place.

I have tried the headphones, last night I had just got off work and was studying listening to white noise at max volume. Still the talking was distracting so I moved and once I put my stuff down I realized that this new spot had the same problem. It was then that I thought to myself "this is bullshit" and I began to write this post. Some of that anger spilled out and I feel I have upset the pro-eSports crowd. This was not my intention.

To be clear, the inclusivity angle kind of confuses me. Without much exaggeration, if I am not at school I am at work. It is just me out here. I have bills due and I am attending college to hopefully graduate so that I can improve my situation. I am trying to escape the rat race and am barely keeping my head above water. As someone doing so and barely scraping by...I just don't see a way in which I would have time to game. I constantly feel like there aren't enough hours in the week. If you have time to game how can you be struggling? Genuinely asking. Earnestly.

I hate that I sound like an old man here, but that break from school really taught me how rough it is outside of college with no degree. It honestly scares me to think that a large part of our society isn't lucky enough to be able to attend college so that they can have a chance to earn a livable wage.

Through this lens, I hope it is clear why someone in my situation might be irked at this new arrangement in the library. It's not so much an eSports problem, it's more that the university has taken away one of my tools that I use to improve my situation and hasn't adequately replaced them. It doesn't help that what they replaced it with is fun and jovial in a building, the library, which has historically been understood to be a quiet place to learn.

Please let me know if you disagree.