OLIN LIBRARY—Between clubs, jobs, and homework, it can be difficult for busy students to tackle entire books for class. What’s more, searching the library for an assigned book can further complicate conquering an assigned reading. For one lucky student, however, the pre-annotated copy he picked up from Olin tells him exactly what’s important.
“At first, I was worried I would have to read the whole book, word by word, line by line, page by page, until I eventually got to the last one,” said Jaden Lay ‘27, “but the faint pencil marks in my copy tell me exactly which parts actually matter.”
Lay said that he was initially worried that by reading only every other sentence, he would be missing out on some important information. After noticing annotations made in highlighter, however, he became assured that if it was important, it ought to be in electric blue.
“I pay special attention to the sections highlighted in purple or pink,” Lay said. “You don’t just bust out colors like that for no fucking reason.”
Despite Lay’s confidence, his classmates and professors noticed strange gaps in his understanding of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which he interpreted as a fun little story about growing up in the South.
