I was in my freshman year at Brevard Community College, I found out about the mess from a guy in my Algebra class. At first I couldnt believe him, I dont think many people knew what was going on, cause nobody was talking about it, or even seemed knowledgeable at the time.
I dipped out of Algebra like 20 mins early and drove home to see what was going on. I wasnt shocked, since people had been telling us it would happen someday, but I was very very sad since it was clearly the most absurd tragedy to date.
I went back to school, and by then the admins had wheeled out tv's into the open walkways, and people were huddled around them.
I went to my Western Civ. class, and just sat there like everybody else... speechless, horrified, morbid, and furious.