I will never forget the morning of March 4. It was dark and overcast, with a hint of rain in the air but also with the first sign of the warm air of spring to come.

Thousands of students turned up. Not hundreds. Thousands!

My hands had trembled a little while I gave my words to the crowd, but my confidence made up for that. Heather said a few words, and so did a few people who represented each of the Five Houses as well as the Third Level Society. We then set out, carrying a human wave toward the Administration Building and making a lot of noise, then going in to occupy the University classrooms. And the Campus Watch had no idea what to do.

It was beautiful.

Karyanna Dwemmer pulled me aside beforehand and warned me that it was "unwise" to do this out of fear of any consequences to come. But said consequences were not as bad as Dwemmer said they would be. The Stamp Administration gave some verbal warnings, most of which turned out to be empty. Four days later, their only real action was Stamp's Chief Administrator, Greg Torus, having the Campus Watch set curfews.

One alarming thing they did, though, was issue a memorandum for the Campus Watch to "supervise" ballot boxes for future University elections. Heather and I discussed this and agreed that this is something we would have to contend with when the time came.

Also, Stamp ordered the formation of a special task force within the Campus Watch, over which Gregory Noser (unsurprisingly) was named the Head.

These, obviously, are issues we have to address in the future. In the meantime, I recently received a message from Meghan Wen asking how I was doing. Again, we are going our separate ways, but that does not mean we cannot message each other.