Lyric discussion by VampireWeekend=Love 

Cover art for Campus lyrics by Vampire Weekend

i looked on VW's website and it has the lyrics like this:

Then I see you You're walking cross the campus Cruel professor Studying romances How am I supposed to pretend I never want to see you again? How am I supposed to pretend I never want to see you again?

Because there's no comma, i think this means that he really likes the girl, but for some reason he has to pretend to hate her. Maybe this is the morning after a break up with the girl. Both of them are dragging their feet, so maybe they both had rough nights after the break up (they both feel bad about it)? or maybe they both just had "late" nights.