The First Day Of Classes At DU

Yesterday was the first day of classes at the University of Denver. And just for fun, I decided to check out what it was like these days at the DU Bookstore, where I worked for almost 30 years before the university outsourced the store in 2012. The first day of classes of the fall quarter was always the busiest day of the year for us. We would spend weeks preparing for it, have 19 cashiers available to work during the day, 6 people at the information desk, and schedule enough people on registers to keep the wait in line down to a minimum. Of course, the last fall "rush" for the DU Bookstore before being outsourced was in 2011. Granted, that was 14 years ago, but I was still shocked to enter the bookstore and see two cashiers and one customer at the registers, as seen in the photograph above. Did I catch them at a slow moment? Although I myself don't ever remember a slow moment on the first day of fall classes. It is indeed a different world from what I knew. I wonder if they even call it "Rush Week" anymore? From the looks of it, they must just call it Monday.