The Absolute WORST Places to Spend Collaborative Time!

Everyone loves the new two-hour collaborative time block, there’s no question about it. But it’s a well known fact that to spend the time well, whether you’re chatting with friends or getting ahead on your school work, you need a calm and peaceful environment. So we at The Southern View took the time to put together a list of places you shouldn’t even THINK about spending collab time.

1. Inside the walls: Sure, these small bits of space might seem like a good place to study at first. Quiet, dark, with friendly rats coming to your for companionship every so often. But try studying in there for more than ten minutes and you’ll see a totally different story. It’s impossible to get any light to see your textbook, it’s too cramped for a normal humanoid person to fit, and the “friendly mice” often resort to biting if they feel threatened.
2. In Mr. Squeg’s classroom: It’s a common misconception that a teacher will welcome any student searching for a place to work or chat with open arms. Mr. Squeg will NEVER provide a peaceful workplace, mostly because he doesn’t exist. Squeg isn’t a real name. I made it up when I was tired and tried telling my brother he needed to pick up a squid and an egg at the supermarket.
3. In the ruins of The EHS Monorail: When the Edina school board of 1981 approved plans to spend $60,000 to create an inter-school monorail to bus students from class to class, most people thought they had gone insane. And they had. The train crashed almost immediately. The remains are stashed mostly in the rarely-used sub-basement level of the school. Sure, the janitors will give you a key to go down there if you ask, but the moans of the ghosts make it far from an ideal study zone.
4. The Secondary House of Pancakes
5. New Orleans: The vibrant culture and friendly citizenry might make it seem worth it to take a trip down there for collab time. We’ve tried it, though, and we’ve got only bad things to say. It’s hot, it’s noisy, it’s approximately 1,200 miles away, and Mardi Gras isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
6. Fick Auditorium: Quiet study time? Nope. Sorry, but administration really should have planned it out better, since the moans from the ruins of the EHS Monorail make focusing on anything LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!