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I was scrambling around my apartment getting ready for my 8 am class (central time) and the phone rang in the apartment. My roommate's mom called her and told her to turn on the TV. She did and we sat there in shock watching the footage over and over again. As soon as she was off the phone with her mom, I'm calling MY mom in California (and getting no response). I had to get to class because we had a test that day, and all through the test, all I could think about was what's happening, praying for those trapped in the buildings, etc. Later that day I had another class in a different building, and we took over another classroom to turn on the news to find out what was happening. Most of my classes spent that day talking about what had happened and what we were all feeling....

(Sidenote: That happened to be my step-father's 60th birthday, so he didn't have too happy of a birthday and it was difficult being 2000 miles away from home to spend the time with my family as we struggled to come to terms with what had happened)