21 Dead in Virginia Tech shooting

I was on campus when this happened.  I was sitting in a chair of one of our longues when my mother called me and told me that my sister had just been on the phone with her and told her of a shooting in her dorm room.  I then proceeded to the computer lab part of the building to check the university website and was in there when the building was put on lockdown.  Across the entire campus police cars and armed law enforcement officers from across the entire region and the state swarmed about.  A group of people from a neighboring building were evacuated through our building and told us of the greater massacre.  A personal friend of mine had a class in that building, but it was cancelled today.  Another friend of mine teaches in that building, but was fortunately unharmed.

 

It's insane to see this on the news and recognize all the place names and realize you've taken classes in the building that is now a crime scene.  We all wish we could wake up from this and have it all be a terrible dream.