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I calmly went back to my apartment (just on the edge of campus), and checked my school email, which just had a vague "incident lockdown" note.

The University's failure to notify students of the severity of the situation infuriates me to this day.

Not OP but another VT student that can give his $0.02.

The one thing about the whole ordeal that infuriates me even to this day was the lack of communication to students.

I had graduated a semester before (December 2006) and was at work when I saw the news break. At first the media and myself thought it was a contained situation, 2 students tragically shot at a residential hall (AJ).

Once I realized there was an active shooting situation at Norris Hall, I began calling my friends who were still students. None of them had any idea what was going on. One of them was actively driving to class and as I was explaining to her to turn around and go home, she was commenting on how campus was blocked off and why were there cops everywhere.

Our President at the time got a lot of blow back (and deservedly so) on how he put many other students' lives at risk by not bothering to warn them of what was going on.

How did you keep your Hokie passport in such good shape after 10 years?

I graduated in 2006 and within 5 years that shit was pretty much completely faded.

I admire your dedication to keeping your Hokie passport.

While I wasn't there since I had already graduated, many of my friends were still students and one was in Norris Hall that day (the one where they barricaded the door with tables and chairs to keep the gunman out as he was firing inside).

It was one of the most stressful and horrific days of my life. Glad you are doing well. I'll never forget checking the news online that morning at work and seeing that 2 people had died and me thinking it was some tragic but contained situation. Then seeing the count go up and up and me just panicking in the middle of work.

Oh no I get that, they initially thought, like the rest of us, that the situation was contained after the two students were shot in AJ.

Where they slipped was while he went on his rampage in Norris Hall. I know they were fined for failure to appropriately warn students, but I think the fine was later overturned.

While it makes me upset, I'm glad that no one else was hurt due to so many students not having any idea what was going on.

Thought we were talking about the VT shooting.

Turns out I'm just retarded.