If I think back to my college years, and yes, okay, it was a while back, this was a familiar pattern for me.

I'd be in the library trying to write an essay or something, and the clock would just be ticking by, and I wouldn't be getting anything done, and I could not focus.

And then I would notice someone, like, blowing their nose next to me a couple tables over.

And then I wouldn't be able to stop hearing it.

And oh my God, if that person wasn't here blowing their nose and distracting me, I could really get some work done.

I think we've all experienced that moment when you're studying and you're like,

I know I have to keep studying, but I would give anything to be anywhere else right now.

This is Victoria Contreras. She's an archivist at Sol Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.

Victoria spends a lot of time at the library. It is, after all, her job.

But at her university, there's actually another place you can go if you hit a studying wall like this.

It's not at a library.

In fact, it's not even indoors.

It's only like two miles there and back, and most of it is a very kind of like laid back

hike up there.

Alpine, Texas is an area basically surrounded by hills and mountains.

So, yes, we are going up one of them.

There is apparently one section that's a little dodgy, so hopefully everyone warns you

when you're like, oh, you're going up there, keep a night.

Don't worry, at the top of this hill, you will be rewarded.

You will have this amazing view.

The land just stretches out forever all around you.

Sometimes it looks dry and yellow like desert,

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