Rosane Coleman had a twinkle in her eye where sleep should have been. Christina Oridos spent the last hours of the night making colorful posters instead of completing her final exam, one she needed to submit by midnight to be able to graduate from nursing school the next day.
It was 11:30 p.m. Monday, way too late to be at Salt Lake International Airport for anyone who didn’t just disembark from a plane. Yet there they were, joining a crowd of about 30 sleep-deprived friends and family gathered around the Terminal 2 baggage claim. And not a yawn could be found among them.