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We had our vigil tonight. As frustrating and aggravating it's been the last few days for putting it together (long story)... getting there, setting up, and having those 400+ students there made me realize... that doesn't matter.
We had a few speakers, had one flame passed around the crowd, banners being signed, donations being made... I got to tell a news station that unfortunately, college students get the stereotype that we don't care. "You can't look at this crowd and say students don't care."
It was unbelievable. It wasn't until everyone had gone home that I started crying, in the arms of a few classmates... crying about all of it. I've been crying on and off all week, reading all the biographies of the students and faculty that were killed, reading of all the memorials and funerals and services, and just wondering. If those were the students that were in my freshman seminar last semester... If they were any of the RAs that I work with... If it was any of my faculty... What on earth do say to that?
I'm in awe. Simply awe.
We had a few speakers, had one flame passed around the crowd, banners being signed, donations being made... I got to tell a news station that unfortunately, college students get the stereotype that we don't care. "You can't look at this crowd and say students don't care."
It was unbelievable. It wasn't until everyone had gone home that I started crying, in the arms of a few classmates... crying about all of it. I've been crying on and off all week, reading all the biographies of the students and faculty that were killed, reading of all the memorials and funerals and services, and just wondering. If those were the students that were in my freshman seminar last semester... If they were any of the RAs that I work with... If it was any of my faculty... What on earth do say to that?
I'm in awe. Simply awe.