Mirror Lake Café
I transferred to The Ohio State University as an undergraduate and spent almost three years on campus until graduating in 1978. Summer semesters were my favorite time because most of the more than 50,000 students did not attend classes then. During those months, it felt sometimes as if the entire campus was mine alone. I would walk along Mirror Lake, which was centrally located, and study at a coffee shop inside an old Tudor style building. I would order something to eat and drink and sit at a small bistro table looking out of the windows onto the lake. I loved reading in that place. Sometimes it would seem as if I were in England in the 1800s. Often, I became enlightened by some scholarly work I was studying and felt so grateful to be able to be in such a special, quiet, place. Even my own thoughts seemed to form easily and with such clarity as I sat in that café.