After the potluck, Ryan, Vijay [another roommate], Justin [ryan's officemate], and I reconvened at our good old Mt. Hope Diner, pretty much right across the street from where we live. Justin treated himself to a deluxe breakfast while the rest of us had coffee or hot chocolate. I worked on my complex analysis, and Vijay helped me with some annoyances with differentials. It was nice.
We went to school and went our various ways to do our various work. I sat in the TA office for some quiet hours and finished most of my homework. Then a bunch of other students came to the office, some who were quite loud and opinionated, but others who were in the throes of discussing their decision to leave Rochester, enumerating the various dissatisfactions. It felt like a weight on my world. I had to go home.