Full house

Despite anxious concerns from faculty and staff emerging from over a year of homebound contingency planning and worst case scenario-ing, it's all systems go for the new semester, which begins in two weeks. At webinars on safety and on teaching last week, administrative committees confidently addressed all our questions, breezily zipping over the space between questions of whether and answers of how. "Is teaching on campus the safest option given delta etc?" "This is how we'll all return to campus." Students are ready to press play, too. Apparently there's been so little summer melt (accepted students who say they'll come in June but have changed their plans by August) that we're scrambling to find spaces in classes for them all.