Did you actually go to the library constantly in elementary?

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I didn't know you could voluntary go into the library during recess. From elementary to middle school everyone was always forced to go to the same area for recess (unless they were called to the Principal's office of course). I did try hiding in a bathroom when lunch/recess was forcefully held inside for a Valentine's Day party in 8th grade to no avail.

The only time I was ever allowed to go to the library during lunch/recess period at will was in high school.

I lived in the library during high school. I loved to read, and it was very unlikely that I would bump into the kind of kids who teased me there. I used to sneak my lunch into the bookstacks and eat there.

Eventually I made a couple of friends who ate in the cafeteria, but the library was still my safe place.

I did not spend much time in the library. I read terribly slowly. Spent a decent portion of time in computer labs.

Allot linchon logs and lego, all variations of other construction toys. I would take apart and reassemble electronics from the age of 5. A year or two later they would still function after i was done. I would pirate software back when it fit on a floppy disk. Random home brew science experiments (created quite a quantity of chlorine gas by accident ), built and designed allot of contraptions.

Ah, I miss those days.

More visually minded.

In elementary school, you couldn't go to the library on your own. You had a weekly library class, with the day of the week depending on your grade level. That was true in the two different elementary schools I went to; one was the usual K thru 6, where I went up to 4th grade. The other was K thru 8, where I finished the rest of the grades.

At the first school, grades 2 thru 6 had one designated library day per week for each grade level, where students could go to the library during their recess, but only on that day. Kindergarten had a classroom library, and 1st grade was taken there by teachers during some reading classes. I didn't end up using the library very much, because I was paranoid of losing a book (after I lost one of my textbooks).

At the second school, there was a weekly library class, which involved a lesson on things like research, critical reading, etc., plus time to browse. Students were barred from going inside outside their library class. The room was also used for rehearsing for the graduation ceremony. I didn't check out books very often, because I was embarrassed of my classmates seeing me reading "dorky" (read: non-fiction) books.

In high school, the library went by the name "study resource center", and you could go there anytime you pleased, as long as you didn't have a scheduled class. The school had a fairly liberal internet policy: any appropriate site other than personal e-mail or games was allowed; even fantasy sports were tolerated. I spent quite a bit of time using the computers.

I went (and still go) to the library as often as possible.
It was/is far more interesting than people.

I did - of course, my mother was the school librarian, or an assistant, so that was another reason to take refuge there. I may have stopped after getting so caught up in a book I never heard the bell ring...

At school, I went to the library as often as I could, not just in elementary school, either.lolOut of school, I would get my dad to take me everytime I could. Only then you couldn't get me out.

Seems a lot of people went to the library for lunch during high school

I did this as well because this girl kept messing with my food and my social misplacement was coming to climax. (Atleast in high school terms) I usually brought my own books and snuck food into the library.

I wasn't sure whether I should say elementary or junior high- junior high seems more appropriate but even in junior high I don't think you could go to the library for lunch (Or middle school for most of you though I don't know what they would call it overseas)

I had the tearing apart idea down but not putting them back together, i'd just have parts from different things that looked similar in different boxes. Never made any contraptions have put very few things back together or if I did they never worked. I have modded some computers but that's about it- I am a fan of crazy modding though I don't have the skills or tools to do it myself. (modding for me usually ment cutting out some holes for fans, or cutting out some brackets for better air flow)

Have you read "Look me in the eyes?" he does a lot of electronic work in his younger days as well.

I've got about half way through it, and got sidetracked with something else. i should finish it though.

it's funny when i bought it i just couldn't bring myself to look the cashier in the eye, she took one look at the cover and smirked.

haha, luckily I didn't buy mine someone else did

ya wasn't a super page turner for me but I did find it entertaining

Yes, I used to go to the local library and get armfuls of books about the Holocaust and bring them home and read them all on Saturday. Then I'd have to wait until next Saturday for my mum to take me again. I'd also borrow rubbishy teen novels from there because my parents would never buy them for me (apart from SVT and BSC books, which they didn't consider too awful). But I got most of my books when I went round the charity shops with my mum at the weekend, 50p Enid Blytons and random books. They got to know me very well in Oxfam! I built up a pretty nice library myself from that, taking from my parents' as well My first books were all chosen by my mum (she pretty much censored my reading until 11, because she paid for them. I don't think it was that bad, because I was v. immature for my age and didn't understand a lot of what I read in fiction books- Judy Blume just about slipped through the cracks, though not because of the sex stuff, just because they were 'silly') and she gave me Anne Frank Remembered and the diary, which set me off, my dad gave me Chaim Potok, Uncle Tom's Cabin, then Enid Blyton, the Brontes etc etc. So I did go to the library a lot, but also we bought lots of books.

I think I started going to the library a lot starting in the 6th grade (middle school, where I grew up). I loved going there. In fact, I love places like that in general. Libraries and colleges are places where I just enjoy going.

...Actually, the library I went to was the first place I ever read A Brief History of Time, studied up on the first obsession I can remember (raptors... peregrine falcons especially). This all happened sometime around the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade. I could have started going a lot at that time, but I know for sure that I was going a lot in the 6th grade.

I voted No, because our school did not have a library, nor did our community have a public library. The city's public library only give cards to adults who have at least a university degree, which at that time was probably less than 10% of the population. We had some sort of resource room with about one book shelf's worth of books, that's about it. Apparently that was already pretty good and our school was considered well funded.

A lot of the schools in the world could hardly afford textbooks or pencils for kids. Library would be a pure luxury.

I didn't go to the library much in elementary school and when I did it had nothing to do with my special interests.

In high school I started going to the library a lot though and spent hours there because of my special interests. They wouldn't lend out dictionaries, so I'd spend hours there writing up foreign words from dictionaries that I would take home and memorize.

After I learnt how to read I was in the library non stop. I didn't hang out there, I only went to get books.