Writing Center is from Another Planet!?

Douglas Hall is nothing but a lifeless hall: empty, cold, solid, with nothing but silence. Eventhough the building was designed in the same way as the other lecture halls, it lacks the sign of life other halls has. Aside from the bulletin board in the entrance, there are almost nothing that resembles a flyer/poster in the building. All doors are closed, and hardly a single sound of students can be heard. In fact, only a few room in this building serve as classrooms. Most of them are actually offices for UIC staffs who are concentrating on their paperworks, which further explain the silence. A few students I happened to find are either rushing into their class or just reading silently in the hallway. Douglas hall is a lifeless hall... an office of death.

Within such a lifeless place, there is one oasis: the Writing Center. Even a blind person would be able to tell the atmospheric differences between these two places. In contrast with the gray-black concrete walls of the hallway, the Writing Center are decorated with colorful posters, fishtanks, and comfortable sofa. Looking through the glass wall from the hallway you can see students talking excitingly with their writing tutors, and even some of the tutors chitchating among themselves. The mood is always lively, and you can tell that people come here to communicate, to learn, to relax, etc. It is not an office; the Writing Center is a lounge. It is a separate world from the rest of Douglas Hall, like a whole new planet, and yet it is IN the Douglas Hall. Who could imagine a totally different use of space in the same building?