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This is the first event in my life that I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing (since I wasn't alive for JFK, MLK, etc).
I was in my psych lab and at the end of class someone mentioned something about a plane hitting one of the towers so I tried to pull it up on CNN.com, but the site wouldn't work. I didn't realize until later that that was because so many people were trying to access the site. I went on to my next class and as I got to the building I saw on a TV in a teacher's office something about the Pentagon being hit. For a split second I thought that it might be a coincidence, but it didn't take long for me to realize that this was no coincidence. I went to class and told one of my sisters about it because she had not heard yet. Our teacher talked about it a little bit, but then we had class as normal. After class I went home to the sorority house where everyone was watching TV in shock. Classes were cancelled so we all just hung out the rest of the day and watched the news and girls called family members to make sure everyone was ok. We were supposed to have a recruitment round that night - I think Open House. That was cancelled and instead some sisters and an advisor had a candlelight. Just like a lot of other people, when I realized what was going on, all I wanted to do was to go home and be with my family. Being at the sorority house with my "other" family though was definitely the next best thing.
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