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I can't sleep. I'm very worried about my students. I did a random search of six of my fifty students, and three of the six live in West AJ--two of them live on the fourth floor. I'm afraid to look for more. How am I supposed to go to class on Thursday and workshop and collect final papers next Tuesday? How do you proceed with class when this awful, horrible, unspeakable thing happened? Thank God there is no class tomorrow. I'm assuming many of our students went home, so I hope there is no class tomorrow. At first, I was numb. I sat on my office floor, listening to the scanner, hearing unspeakable things, hiding from a gunman. I am *evacuated* from my office and sit in traffic for 45 minutes as people are literally fleeing the campus. Now, after listening to more student stories and reading that my own students live in the dorm (the same dorm, and floor, *I* lived on as a freshman), I'm in tears. I just don't know what to do. Both of my degrees are from here. I work here. Tech is a huge part of my life. How can this happen here? How is Matt Lauer on my TV outside of Derring Hall? How do I look at the news and see my office on the TV screen?
How do you even begin to move forward from this, let alone help my students to move forward?
How do you even begin to move forward from this, let alone help my students to move forward?