Brad Templeton
Professor Cobb
English 1010
14 November 2014

Opinion-Editorial
Imagine you’ve been at the library for 3 hours doing a research paper and your thoughts are flowing better than they ever have before. It’s late and you’re tired, but finally, after staring at a blank paper for over an hour, you are making progress. You look at the time and realize its 10 minutes until 2 a.m. and you cannot stop here. If you stop now, you’ll lose your train of thought, but the library closes soon and you have no option but to save your work and start again when you get home. The best way to fix the problem for the library to be open 24 hours a day. More students would get their work done and grades would improve. Students would spend more time in an environment that would encourage learning to work hard on their schoolwork. The library staying open 24 hours a day would benefit the students and the university in more ways than one.
A lot of students have to pay for their college by themselves. Well, money to pay for that does not come easy. This means that we have to have jobs, which means our time to do school work is limited. If a student like me gets off work late, they go straight to the library to sit down and put in work. Before they know it they hear that dreaded voice come over the intercom saying “ Attention, the library will be closing in 30 minutes “ and you have barely got any work done. This reason makes going to library a tough decision, you start working at a good pace and then all a sudden are being asked to leave. I then have to find another place to go and study and then try to refocus myself enough to finish the work I had started.
The other option would be to study at home or in the dorm. I am personally against this because some houses and most dorms are not exactly the most ideal places to work in. For example you could have a terrible work space, lack of technology, or an obnoxious family that makes getting work done hard. The James E. Walker Library has a variety of places that allow you to get work done. The library consist of four floors, on each floor study rooms and meeting areas that allow students to talk while studying, quiet zones, plenty of computers, and of course four floors filled with books. The library is by far the most used resource on campus by students. This being said, why is MTSU trying to limit our resources and hurt our college education.
Student’s favorite resource in the library is printing. After all who wants to spend money on a printer or go all the