{"id":4570,"date":"2024-07-16T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:17:36","slug":"secret-study-spots-students-find-northwesterns-hidden-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/07\/secret-study-spots-students-find-northwesterns-hidden-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Students explore campus study spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute, cherubs reported over 10 stories &#8212;\u00a0 and found their own signature spaces around campus to write them.<\/p>\n<p>Stella Seitz of Los Angeles said she frequently wrote in the Multicultural Student Lounge in the Fisk Hall basement since \u201cno one goes down there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like it because it&#8217;s secluded from all the energy of the program, which can sometimes be hectic,\u201d Seitz said. \u201cI think there&#8217;s something in the air down there because it really helps me be productive. There&#8217;s also three vending machines in really close proximity, which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ananya Mirchandani of New York gravitated toward the periodicals section of University Library. On the first day of the program, she said she saw newspapers spread across a table and was immediately intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to walk in because my curiosity took over, and I sat down and the rest is history,\u201d Mirchandani said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good place to sit at a desk and write while staying focused. There\u2019s a good, collaborative vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some cherubs decided to venture further into campus, Ansh Bhadani of San Jose, California, said he preferred the fourth-floor lounge of Jones Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feature was brutal,\u201d Bhadani said. \u201cI stayed up until like 4 a.m. with a bunch of the guys just working on it. Everyone else is in the lounge, so if I need help, they\u2019re all right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Mirchandani usually chose the periodicals area, she said she headed outside when the weather was nice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other day, I went to a picnic table in the park by the lake, and it was breezy and sunny and warm,\u201d Mirchandani said. \u201cI wrote the first part of my trend story there, and I was writing about homelessness, so it\u2019s a pretty sad topic. Being outside put me in a better mood about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs share their go-to places to work on assignments around campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":5578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[316],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":316,"user_id":104,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sophiabateman","display_name":"Sophia Bateman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/52bedd020b2bbf26e741fd4d14ed5ba613d1c67e129d55e529c7d9d9e5138be9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bateman","first_name":"Sophia","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}