inside the labyrinth

in one of my classes this semester we received an assignment to write a five page paper over the social psychology subject of our choice. we were told to write the paper in apa format, which before writing the paper i had no idea even existed.  we were also required to have at least 5 sources, only two of which could be from the internet. so i dragged myself to fondren library and basically didn't leave for two days straight.  i spent the entirety of the first day simply trying to figure out what apa format even meant, this definitely took me longer than actually writing the paper itself.  the next day i started searching the web for sources and once i got my two internet sources out of the way i realized that i would actually have to start looking for books to use to fulfill the requirement.  once i searched for the appropriate books on the library catalog i had no clue where to even begin to look for the books.  i can honestly say that i am a junior in college and i had never looked for a book to check out, let alone checked out a book from fondren.  so of course i went straight to help desk and was told that one of my books was located on the first floor, one on the second floor in fondren west, two on the third floor of fondren east, and the fifth on the third floor of fondren east.

*this picture was actually taken in fondren while i was lost

not confusing at all.  after finding my first two books, not very easily might i add, i promptly found myself lost among the stacks, not knowing if i was in east or west, or really positive what floor i was on for that matter, due to the tricky stairs.  i felt like i was in the movie labyrinth alongside jennifer connelly trying to find my way out of the goblin king jareth's labyrinth so i could finally start my paper.

everywhere i turned all i could see were books, books and more books and every aisle looked exactly the same.  i literally had to walk to the very end of one of the rows and just follow the outer wall all the way around until i could find a door that led out of the stacks.  a quick lesson to all you freshman out there: learn the dewey decimal system...and maybe go in pairs.