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The above quote is from Nathan Deuel\u00a0(Class of 2003). He shared the following Rock memories:<\/p>\n
I came to Brown as a transfer and maybe found something a little too gorgeous in all the brick, the ivy, the history. Three places on\u00a0campus made me feel more at home: Grad Center, that forbidding labyrinth of a dorm, where I did pull-ups and smoked 1,000\u00a0cigarettes to get through my first semester; \u00a0Loui’s, where a pitcher of beer always seemed like a fine idea; and the Rock, that\u00a0somewhat cruel, mostly stunning building on College Street. Slowly, as I gained a foothold among my peers — speaking more\u00a0confidently in class, writing stories, getting a sense I might find a way to be a real Brunonian, however brief my stay — I found myself\u00a0spending more and more time in the library. Sure, I needed to use the computers and the printer and to find my place among all those books. In the\u00a0endless stacks, at the immaculate carrells, I often felt like there was more important work being done. Feeling out-classed, I would take refuge among the\u00a0various \u00a0green spaces surrounding the building, where a body could sit and smoke a hand-roll. After a lit class one day,\u00a0somewhere in that dank old English building \u00a0since torn down, I remember poking my head into a closet. In a trash can was a\u00a0treasure trove of old press-board desktops, which had been pried from where I couldn’t tell. Had Brown students done all that\u00a0writing? It blew my mind; engraved into the surface of each, with knives and pens and pencils, were words like K I S S and S L A Y E\u00a0R and Buddy Luvs Tammy and TEAR THE SYSTEM DOWN and DOSTOEVESKY RULZ and all manner of speech I never would\u00a0have imagined seeing on such a fancy campus. Greedily, getting ideas for the kind of writer I might\u00a0yet become (and the way Brown might let me do it) I slung a half-dozen desktops under my armpit, late for my next class. Thinking\u00a0fast, with ideas of what I might do later, I hid the stash in the bushes beside the Rock. Days went by, then weeks, and as the semester flew by and my girlfriend moved\u00a0to New York and I with her, I forget the pieces…Are they still there? Did someone find them? Are they contributing in any meaningful\u00a0way to someone’s life? I’m not sure, but I’ll never forgot the experience of finding another way we could use a library, and for that I’ll never\u00a0forget the Rock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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