It’s amazing what has been all over the news recently.

Unless you are living under a rock (or are locked in a dark place like a closet) you know what I am talking about - The Virginia Tech shootings.

Am I afraid to go to classes?

No - I am not an idiot: I will not go on to blatantly say that I think that it can’t ever happen at ISU, because I’m sure the students at Virginia Tech are thinking the same thing: “We didn’t think it could ever happen here”.

It can. It can happen anywhere. Do I think it will happen tomorrow, or in the next year? No.

Will it happen at ISU? I sure as hell hope not - at least not while I am here (or my brother, whatever college he goes to as well for that matter).

It’s very sad, but I believe that students cannot overwhelm themselves with this. If they do, everyone will end up not going to class because they are afraid to leave their homes.

Do we live in that world yet? Where people are afraid to leave their own homes for fear of getting killed, shot, stabbed, whatever?

I cannot blindly say that this kind of thing will never happen again.

However, I don’t believe people should be afraid to leave their homes at night, or be afraid of crossing a dark parking lot, or going through a dark alleyway, etc.

I think people should just listen to a little thing called a conscience: If you have a bad feeling about going down a certain dark alleyway at a certain time of night, then you probably should not venture down that alleyway at 3 o’clock in the morning.

But if I leave something in my car that I need for class and I remember at 2:30 in the morning that I left it there - I will certainly go and get it at 2:30 in the morning if I have to.

We just have to pick up and go on living - we all know that the media is going to completely over-hype this thing by 1000 percent. That’s just the way it works.

You know what I say?

Don’t watch the news so much, turn off your TV and go to class.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Me

1. I want to do something crazy right now. Like eat squid, or wash my dishes - whichever comes first.

2. I’m hungry enough to eat a whole box of Thin Mints. Oh wait - too late.

3. I am having withdrawals from surfing the Internet by writing this.

4. I’m doing this post and talking to 6 people online to procrastinate from my homework. (Wait, you probably already knew that to some extent…)

5. I want to be somewhere else - like in Hawaii, or my bed.