Their conversation overlays chatting students entering for the next class, who have less coatage and walk with a bit more coordination. They claim desks by placing their enviro-mugs. Maybe you'd want to break up your data, you know, middle income countries, high income countries . . . So you think I could even do an Australian cross-section . . . Yeah, I actually liked it.
Incoming students pause at the front table to scribble their names on an attendance sheet.
Olson leans on the podium smiling expectantly. She starts erasing econometrics graphing and r2 from the board. The class is a bit larger, with more bodies to sneak gulps of enviro-mug coffee behind. One William Smith student twists an extra desk around and sets her Espresso enviro-mug on it, then tears a small colorful illustration from a CD club catalog and passes it to the next row, getting a grin and a lifted eyebrow in exchange. Loud vibrating comes from the library construction.