Echoes of spring

The university is not quite the same with all the students out. There is this two week deadtime right after the spring semester and right before the summer session begins. Everything is crawling to a slow pace. Short business hours for the cafeteria, the library and even for some professors around here. The only one left are those trying to finish some academic requirements. The graduate students mostly inherit the campus in the two weeks of interregnum. It used to be that around this time a number of international students newly arrive for a fall semester not yet to begin, start to wander around the campus. The INS has put a stop to that with the stricter rules. Sometimes when you sit in one of the benches on campus and you concentrate hard enough, you can hear the leaves moving to the breeze of summer...