MugArt: A Reflection of Academic Determination, Distress

April 28, 2014October 25, 2014 Yasmin Gentry 0 Comment Campus

All photographs by Yasmin Gentry. Dedication to academia is found all over campus. Most explicitly, it’s found in Mugar Library in the confines of the private wooden cubicle desks lined up on just about every floor. Whether it’s just studying in the week leading up to that crucial Macro midterm or cranking out a 20-page paper on Lincoln the night before it’s due, the majority of us can say the Mugar cubicle has been an integral part of our collegiate experience.

Over the years, BU students have also left their mark on those desks—literally. There are expletives and sad reflections of procrastination, but there are also words of encouragement, drawings, and quirky poetry to intrigue Terriers term after term. “MugArt” creatively and cleverly reflects BU students in limbo between academic failure and success and records timeless advice about these four years we’ll never get back.

: In which Hamlet makes a cameo.

: Not in 2014, you didn’t.

: “When I talk too loud / My mind becomes a cloud of thinning rusted(?) dust / Confused, I must / Go away”

: I call this one “A Duck’s Mid-Life Crisis”.

: Denial.

: “Fight to leave your mark in the world, even if it’s just on some cubicle in some library”

: “I wish it were that easy,” every pre-med student replies.

: DO IT.

: Positivity is key.

: Muagr’s own personal advice column.

: On a scale of one to 10, I’d give this wise student a 12 for having his or her shit together, simply due to the proper use of “your” and “you’re.”