The College Room has been well-used over the past couple of weeks, as our LSA students have been studying for exams and eating the food you've provided and sleeping and breaking into periods of playful rowdiness to cope with the pressure of all the exams and papers and projects. But now (sigh...), one by one, the college students have been stopping by to say, "I'M FINISHED!!"

Remember what a joyous feeling it was, to be finished for a semester?! So why am I so sad? Because now they're leaving for the summer! I'll see many of the students one more time Monday and Tuesday because I'll go down to their "beach week" cottage for an overnight. But some of them are graduating, so they won't be back in the fall, and who knows when I'll see them next?

It's too quiet around here in the summer, when the College Room is dark and empty ...