Weary University of Waterloo students looking to sneak some sleep in the math lounge known as MC Comfy will have to look elsewhere after this spring.

The lounge is getting a makeover - and that includes removing the couches that serve as crash pads for calculus-crazed students.

Gayle Goodfellow, the communications and student services officer for the university's math faculty, says she's been hearing a lot about the makeover.

“Oh yes, every student I speak with expresses concern. ‘Where are we going to sleep?’”said Goodfellow. “It definitely has a reputation on campus as one of –it’s not the only place on campus where students will nod off, but it’s definitely a favourite.”

Instead, those fabled couches will be replaced with modular chairs with different arm configurations.

“They’ll be really, really cool, modern looking one-seaters that can be pushed together into two-seaters,”said Tristan Potter, the math society president. “It won’t be very easy to lie down across them,” he added.

Potter said most students don’t sleep in the lounge.

“It’s a very small minority of people who actually sleep there regularly, and in general it’s very dirty and gross,” he said.

“Most people view this as a well-needed upgrade.”

A Reddit user who posted on the University of Waterloo subreddit about the lounge makeover said it wouldn’t stop the sleep.