This is the last time we will stand in awe at spring's green fluorescence on the Lawn and on University Circle. Saturday was our last Foxfield, and next Tuesday will be our last class. For the last time we will scuffle through Cabell Hall amid the sleepy-eyed throng. We will arrive late to class for the last time and have our last chance to arrive early. Now we compose our last papers, finish the last novels, cram for the last tests.
Finals are chillingly final.
The next time you pass an acquaintance in the Pav, it might be the last time you see him. The next time you choose to eschew studying and watch a movie in Clemons instead might be the last as well. In these final weeks, regularity gains a poignancy that the finality of graduation magnifies. For the last time you will wait in computer lines. You have battled with ISIS for the last time, struggled with administrative bureaucracy for the last time, and, more likely than not, squinted at reams of microfiche for the last time.