The last tents came down in front of Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday, where two lingering activists had elected to spend Tuesday night even though the sit-in by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) had already ended.

Just days after PSLM first occupied Mass. Hall, tents sprang up in the Yard in support of a “living wage.” The population of the tent city peaked the first weekend of the protest, then fell as the protest wore on. But, even without occupants, tents kept appearing until the count neared 90 earlier this week.

Then, on Tuesday afternoon, the sit-in ended as members of PSLM left Mass. Hall claiming victory and vowing to keep up the fight for a living wage. Within a matter of hours, all but two of the tents had been taken down and unclaimed gear had been stowed in a basement closet in nearby Matthews Hall.

All that was left were patches of yellowed grass where the tents had been and a heap of trash, including the torn-down facade of “Tent City Hall,” where notices had been posted for the camp-out community. Parked outside Mass. Hall was a truck from the A.M.-P.M. Cleaning Corporation. Vacuums whirred inside the building.

It all happened a little suddenly for Samaria (who preferred not to use her last name), who left in the morning and came back at night to find the tent city had been dismantled. She said she was “not satisfied” with the agreement that PSLM and the University reached and was not ready to leave the tent city.

“There wasn’t any kind of closure,” she says. “What if people wanted to exchange numbers?”

By Wednesday, even Samaria was gone. So was the trash pile. Armed with rakes and shovels, landscape crews were preparing to spray green “hydro mulch” on the patches of dead grass.

Though it came and left without fanfare, one squatter, Alex Rae, says he believes the tent city was more than just a display of support.