It’s clean, it’s convenient, it’s not falling apart or in danger of blowing up (we hope).

Shillman Hall was voted best classroom building, not surprising considering the competition. The comfy swivel chairs are enough to sway any voters who have minor anxiety attacks when they see “Kariotis” on their schedule and know for the next four months they will be bolted to the desk, literally.

Four floors of glass-covered mastery, Shillman is without a doubt the best classroom building on campus. On a lazy summer’s day when you’re stuck in class, no building provides you with some in-house people-watching like Shillman, with air conditioning to boot.

And there’s always an X factor involved with these votes, and in this case it’s a D factor. A double-D factor, to be specific. There is no other building on campus that lets you sneak away from your Age of Dinosaurs class to get a cool, refreshing Coffee Coolatta from Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s an easy exit to make while your teacher is struggling with the state-of-the-art — but overly complicated — visual equipment. If you are going to have to watch your freshman classmates’ Power Point on ancient rivers, at least you can munch on your everything bagel.

Now if they would only install some clocks …

– Staff writer Emily Werchadlo