I felt just sad. I thought I'd feel scared and then I'd feel angry, but I felt a lot more sad than I was expecting to feel, and it's hard because I feel sad just being here. I live far away, and so I couldn't really... I didn't really wanna spend the time and energy, driving five hours to home, so ...

I was just hoping to briefly share my condolences to the Michigan Diaries team and Michigan State Community today. Just seeing some really tough news that I, you know, can only imagine the kind of feelings that everyone's going through in the active shooter situation. So I, yeah, just wanted to offer, you know, some more words of support. Definitely have ...

And then I guess the other thing that I would say about my experience about the shooting is that I think that I was a little bit in shock the next day, so the Tuesday, where I was kind of like, "Okay, something bad happened. Now let's, now let's get together and do what we can to do our job and ...

I just wanted to contribute and to answer kind of the question of where I was when I got the news about the violence that happened at MSU. So I was at home when I got the text message warning from the MSU police, and I could tell pretty quick that it wasn't one of the typical warnings. Usually they're a ...

The next morning, I had a meeting first thing in the morning, and that's - I mean, I was thinking all of my connections to MSU are like second order, right? I mean, I know people who know somebody at MSU. One - two of the people at work that started in the last year used to work at MSU, one ...

Yeah. I just, yeah, I can't - I didn't - first off, can't imagine the fear of being in a situation like that, but then the fear of another person potentially being the cause of a life or death situation, like while you are trying to protect yourself. It did appear that they were able to get him to refrain from ...

But yeah, hearing about that. It's like oh s***. It's in my community, at large. It's, you know, it's not here here. It's not NMU. Yet. But it's here. It's getting closer. It feels inevitable. I'm waiting for it to happen here. I'm waiting for ...

I think you know what happened last night, and I can't get my mind off that in the slightest. Here I was... I was lucky. I was in my apartment when the shelter in place order went out. So, I mean I wasn't really planning on leaving, I was in the apartment that night anyway. I was planning to get some ...

I don’t know, I just... I think that in times that I've felt distressed, it's those small acknowledgments, it's a kind word. It's someone who recognizes maybe you don't have the energy to cook a meal, so they're gonna bring you out or get you something. Those are the things that seem to really matter the most. And I think something ...

I woke up the next morning on Tuesday, February the 14th. I turned on the television set at 7am. And there was the big story. The lead story on The Today Show was about the shooting that occurred on MSU campus. I was just absolutely horrified as I heard all of the details. At that point, there were three students who ...

My girlfriend teaches first grade. And I think on Wednesday she told me about a co-worker, a fellow first grade teacher, who got an email from a parent of a first grade child. The parent was not upset, nothing really, it was a very matter-of-fact email. And she just wanted the first grade teacher to know that she'd sent her child ...

Last night was the - last night was the active shooter at MSU campus. I remember last night getting the alert on my phone at 8:30. My boyfriend turned on the police scanner, and we were listening to that until past midnight, so for close ...

One of my friends teaches at Oxford. Apparently my minion's brother's friend, little brother, survived both Oxford and now Michigan State. There's not enough therapy to fix that. I was in Virginia when Virginia Tech happened. I worked for the commission that overhauled the mental health laws afterwards. Got mental health parity, all that good stuff. I did that. That got ...