student centers at commuter colleges, helpful?

theviolinist
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:04:51 +0000

We don’t have one of those gameroom-type student centers, but we do have a cafeteria with long tables and computers along the walls, as well as a small lounge with couches and tables. The cafeteria is definitely used a lot, but not nearly as much as it could be, mostly because a lot of people don’t even know that it exists or where it is. Even more true of the lounge.



I’ve noticed a lot of successful student centers are usually portals, i.e. some long building you have to walk through in order to get to classes



Yes, this. The place where people hang out the most, other than in the cafeteria where there are computers, is the covered area outside the building where there is a sort of long brick bench and a wide sidewalk. People just sort of sit around and talk and/or smoke out there, and on nice days study. So yeah, I agree it should be somewhere convenient. Seems to me like most commuters don’t like to go around searching for stuff.