I'm sorry that I'm not typing Chinese right now,
please just read this...
So far as I was reading what you guys posted about
the tragedy happened at the World Trade Center... I
felt you guys might be interested from a different
perspective how other Purdue Students and I felt
about this...
This happened today as we had an career fair on
campus just same as Georgia Tech. I was walking
in Union as seen everyone else was watching the TV...
Meanwhile, there was over 150 companies came to the
career fair today... And I was busy to find an internship
for next summer... I didn't pay much attention at all...
When I was eating lunch at Union, all TVs were
kept playing videos of how did the plane crashed,
and how did the government and the senate respond...
I guess I spent all my attention toward career,
didn't realize what a shocking moment it was
until the end of career fair...
I went home, talk to my mom, and get to known that
my cousin, in her first day of working in New
York City, just barely got out of this, as where
she works, is just two blocks away from the WTR...
My emotion broke down as i was watching the TV...
All the smoke, building crashing, people running...
Just sadness... Meanwhile, all our family felt grateful
that my cousin was all right... But there are
thousands of people died in this tragdy today...
I was emotionally depressed... Couldn't do anything
for a couple hours...
Most of my friends and other Purdue students felt the
same way... No one really believed something like this
would be happening in United States... Really... We
would expect this type of thing happening in India,
in Middle East, but never in the States... Perhaps we've
been too over-protected... Perhaps not...
People from the Purdue LC was writing e-mails all over
our list today, talking about how is this similar to
Independent's Day... Seems so cool in the movie....
But in reality... god.... The university took immediate
action, blood donation went on immediately... maybe a little
bit like 921 i guess... i donno...
Ever since the oil crisis from the 70's. I think this is
the first time, there're cars waiting a long long line
for gasoline... amazing... even at Purdue, thousands
of miles away from New York, people are paniced...
Despite the tragedy, we all realized that life still have
to go on... We still had member callout tonight, and there
will still be classes and jobs tomorrow, just as everyday life...
But inside everyone of us, felt different... It's just that...
for how long?
why are we doing @? We also had this discussion in the LC today...
Just as Jamie said, aren't we all working hard in @ to prevent
tragedies like this happening?
i don't really know what do say, my emotion is a mixed of mess
right, now just like everyone else... I guess I am just
writing this to let you know how big this hit on myself, as
to most other people I know of... I thank you for reading this...
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