SOL March 26

The hallways are filled with sound, talking, walking, and an occasional calculator crashing into the floor. For five minutes when people are coming and going from math classes, the halls fill with people, carrying textbooks, notebooks, binders, and calculators, all piled in a precarious stack. After the flood of people has shrunk, they wait in the halls outside their math class, or dwindle off into their classrooms. The last doors open, and we go inside and sit down.