[mountaineer]

My husband is an administrator at a small state college. He said the kids gathered in the food court outside his office were glad classes were cancelled. That was it. Woo hoo, classes are cancelled. I'm glad that wasn't the reaction on Dec. 7, 1941.

[patriciaruth]

December 7, 1941, was a Sunday. There were no classes.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Kids. My two 14 year olds get it because we were there a couple of weeks ago. We were at ground zero. It helps if its not far away.

[John Farson]

That was it. Woo hoo, classes are cancelled.

That wasn't the only reaction here. People were glued to their TV sets for the first few hours. Students are now hanging American flags out their windows. My dorm room now has a Gadsden ("DONT TREAD ON ME") flag in one window and an American flag in the other.

[patriciaruth]

I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated. I left my calculus class in college when I heard the news that he had been shot and went to a church to pray, with a transitor radio, which gave the news while I was in the sanctuary alone that the President had died.
Then we had the weekend off but had to go to class Monday. I had to do a paper on Shakespear's King Lear. It was very hard for me to concentrate on writing even though a couple days had passed and my parents hadn't even voted for him. Voting age then was 21, so I hadn't voted.
I remember ending the paper on King Lear by stating that the tragedy of a nation's leader is the tragedy of the nation. And my professor wrote a remark after that indicating he did not understand that statement.
This will be like then, some college kids will be deeply affected, others will be upset that the Madonna concert was canceled.

[patriciaruth]

Pearl Harbor defined my parents' generation.
The Kennedy assassinatation defined my generation, the Baby Boomers.
The Challenger explosion may have been the definer for the Generation X'ers.
This tragedy will probably define the Millennial Generation.

[peter the great]

You know I was thinking about what I would do if I were W. A draft would be a consideration and why not draft college students be this time around? These kids should be concerned.

[cactmh]

I attend the University of Florida. Everyone I talked to was quite upset about everything today. Five of us spent hours watching the news reports and talking about this....