College v. Airport

Carleton’s Sayles-Hill campus center versus the average airport concourse

Similarities

• Lots of people idling away a few minutes or hours between time-fixed commitments.
• Many laptops open and sucking down wi-fi bandwidth.
• Almost everyone eating or drinking something.
• Long lines at the coffee bar.
• At least some public sleeping, no matter when you’re there.
• TVs blaring.
• Rather more litter than you’d like to see.
  

Differences

• No children at Sayles-Hill.
• More MBA types working their way through a Grisham novel at the airport.
• Better chairs and couches at Sayles-Hill.
• No Bluetooth headsets at Sayles-Hill.
• More places to eat and buy junk at the airport.
• You don’t have to take your shoes off to enter Sayles-Hill.
• It costs a lot more to go to Carleton and belong in Sayles-Hill than to fly commercial and sit in a concourse.
• No playwrights in the basement of the airport.