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Photo Essay | Tuesday, March 17, 2009

End of ‘09 Winter Term

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The student employees at Novack Cafe keep the snack counter open 24 hours a day through reading period and exams. The student pictured here on Saturday at 2:45 a.m worked until 10 a.m. that morning.

Mar 17 | 3:14 am

Order this photo | Photo: Zeke Turner / The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Two students share a table in the main corridor of Baker-Berry Library on the first day of exams. Winter term exam period began on Wednesday, March 11 with two days of reading period followed by five days of exams before spring break.

Students wander the windowless halls of Stack Annex B, looking for books and available desk space.

Students wake up early to secure the best tables on Berry Level 3.

Berry Level 3 as seen from the bridge to Stack Level 5.

When desk space runs short tensions flare, but always with a sense of humor.

Some avoid the library altogether, opting to study in more relaxed areas like the Top of the Hop.

One student takes an afternoon nap during reading period in an armchair next to
the south-facing windows of Berry Level 4.

Students come to Novack Cafe to buy food and talk with friends and classmates.

Berry Level 3.

The mezzanine of Rauner Special Collections Library.

Berry Level 1.

One student curls up in a set of armchairs in the Periodicals Room to capitalize on the last remaining hours of reading period.

Noise of any sort is frowned upon in Baker Library’s Tower Room.

Two shot fairies dress up and troll the library with a bottle of liquor to help their friends relax on Friday night, following the first day of exams.

Jack Stinson, front right, supplies all-you-can-eat midnight breakfast to students at Gamma Delta Chi fraternity on Friday night for $4. Proceeds supported the Dartmouth Global Leadership Program’s spring break trip to El Rosario, Honduras.

The student employees at Novack Cafe keep the snack counter open 24 hours a day through reading period and exams. The student pictured here on Saturday at 2:45 a.m worked until 10 a.m. that morning.

Many students spend all day and night in the 1902 Room, which remains open 24 hours, seven days a week throughout the term.

A custodian waits for the clock to strike 2 a.m. before locking the doors between the 1902 Room and the rest of the library.

The 1902 Room on Friday morning, after some students, fresh off of all-nighters, have left to take their first exam.

Students sit for professor Mary Desjardins’ “Film History II (1930-1960)” exam on Saturday morning in Loew Auditorium.

Professor Claudia Leeb’s “Political Ideas” exam in Rockefeller 2 on Saturday afternoon.

Professor Erich Osterberg’s “”Earthâ€™s Past, Present, and Future Climate”” exam in Fairchild 221 on Saturday afternoon.

Professor John Carey’s “Latin American Politics” exam in Rockefeller 3 on Saturday afternoon.

Frisbee returns to the Green on Sunday evening once most students have finished their exams.