12 Small Victories All Queen's University Belfast Students Dream About

5. Discovering The C. S. Lewis Reading Room

What exactly is behind that great big wooden door? According to rumour it's actually the exclusive meeting place of dedicated English Lit students, used to sacrifice the sordid works of Dan Brown and E. L. James in order to summon Beckett plays, Coetzee novels and Ciaran Carson poems.

In reality, it's actually a fantastic resource for getting a comfy seat and some peace and quiet. There's nearly always an available seat in the C. S. Lewis Reading Room and, contrary to popular belief, Creative Writing students don't actually bite €“ unless you're talking about writing a biting metaphor for societal alienation, that is.

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Commonly found reading, sitting firmly in a seat at the cinema (bottle of water and a Freddo bar, please) or listening to the Mountain Goats.