Silence

Robertson Hall is eerily quiet these days. We are in our second week of final exams. Except for bleary eyed students occasionally trudging into and out of exams, no one is around. Professors are writing or grading exams. Students are in their hideaways, studying anywhere but here.

For most students these days are simply to be endured. I talked with one first year student, though, who is energized. She has loved studying for and taking the exams. A little sick, but encouraging!

In four days it will all be over. The tension will lift. Students who have not had a spare minute since Thanksgiving won’t know what to do with all of the time on their hands as Christmas break comes. There is a certain beauty to the academic calendar. Things that begin have an end. Crazy busy ends in rest.