Beginning in fall the city of Athens couldn’t be more alive. Traffic jams are as plentiful as parking spots are scarce. Parents and their now college bound children are scrambling between their cars and dorms. Hauling load after load of clothes, bedding, and TVs across the streets and up into the various brick dorms. And it ends as quickly as it begins. The cars slowly return home and the students wonder around visiting friends while others begin organizing their rooms.
The students are now on their own and wake up to their first day of class. It’s another cloudy day and besides the occasional morning jogger and landscapers Athens is silent. Then once an hour it explodes as students pour out of the various buildings and dorms and make their way to each of their destinations. Traffic is forced to a standstill from all the roaming students in the busier places such as the top Morton and the Baker Center. Once again it all ends as quickly as it began..at least for the next 50 minutes. Athens is truly a spontaneous city that bursts to life as quickly as it becomes a peaceful country town.
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