I had skipped my first class of the morning. I was waking up and getting ready for my next class, and it happened to be politcal science I was going to next.
I made it to Poli-sci a little bit early... I was still oblivious to what was going on, until my good friend Michelle walked in. She mentioned we might not have class, and I asked why? She said "Because of the thing happening with the airplanes". I was confused. Our poli-sci professor got to class a lil early too. He seemed to be in a rush, and unsettled. He had this weird look on his face, so I kinda knew something really bad had happened. We went to the Student Union as a class to watch the news. We watched in horror as the second plane hit
My friends and I were very emotional about it and were crying.. for the rest of the day people just went about in what seemed like a daze. Sitting at the front desk of my residence hall (I was an RA at the time) all we could talk about was how unbelievable the whole event was. "What could make someone hate THAT much?" was all we could think.
I went to my volunteer radio DJ job at the campus radio station and it was a bit chaotic as well. It was so weird. I was normally one of the most "bubbly" radio personalities and was in such a state of awe. I felt so robotic reporting the latest news on the incident. The campus radio station had taken off the music from the air and had a live radio feed from one of the parent news stations. An hour into my shift I was told to switch back to music and was given a list of music *not* to play due to the lyrics and the given situation. Even with the music, I couldn't pretend that everything hadn't happened. It was so hard not to cry while on the air that day.
That night our school held a candle-light vigil on University Blvd. and everyone was bawling. We were very worried about the incident because there was a Naval Air Station in the city we lived in.. and also another one not too far away.
After the vigil, we went back to our residence hall where everyone was huddled around the television in the main lobby watching the footage of the attack... and of the President's Address. It was a very sad day in history.