Half-mast

I'm on campus today studying for Step 2, the first time I've been on campus since the Aurora shooting 10 days ago. It was a bit of a shock to me seeing the heightened security and having to show my ID badge to get into the building in which I took all my classes during the first two years of medical school.

I set up shop in a corner room on the second floor, quiet with lots of natural light. It also has a view of the main flagpole standing over the main entrance to campus. The flag was still at half-mast when I arrived this morning, but sometime during my first or second problem sets, the flag was raised back to the top. A sign of this community trying to move on.