The above quote is from Alexis Scott (Class of 2004). Read the full memory below:

Oh my dear Rock. I referred to this sweet bastion of knowledge as my “girlfriend” during my time at Brown when I was breathing and reading within its walls as an emerging feminist scholar. I spent time on every floor, deeply titillated by the quiet accumulation of words and thoughts within her walls. I wrote papers that brought me close to mental ecstasy on the second floor, had kissing rendezvous in secret stairwells and ascending elevators, took the perfect sort of naps in the Absolutely Quiet Room, and spread anti-war art on basement concrete. When I was lonely and cold on Providence winter nights, I went to the Rock who would hold me in her knowing arms and tell me that no matter what, there was always something to read and think.