Six Years Ago
I was in college on 9/11. My first class on Tuesdays was at 6:30pm.
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I was in college on 9/11. My first class on Tuesdays was at 6:30pm.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 8:47 am and is filed under Life Before Blogging. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:49 am
keith says:standing on the roof of my building (on e. 11th st) trying to figure out what the fuck was going on.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:54 am
The Joy says:I was IN class. It was an 8AM. A student said “Planes just crashed into the twin towers!” and the lefty-pinko-commie-feminista-revolutionary said, “It’s probably nothing. Let’s continue.”
September 11th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Chad says:Driving to work, listening to the radio. They started talking about it, but they joke…a lot. All I was thinking was that, this is a sick f-ing joke and changed the station. Unfortunately, they were talking about it also.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:27 am
quin says:just dropped my kids off school in this town we’d just moved to of 14 stoplights, 60 miles from nowhere…walking in the house, i opened up our paper that is, what? 50 pages? and, as he did every morning, my dad would joke, asking, “well, who are we at war with?”
and i flipped on the news as the second plane hit, and thought, ‘omg, who ARE we at war with?”
September 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Brooklyn Bitch says:I was in my senior year of high school, on the Upper West Side, in Dr. Vernoff’s U.S. History class. He cried when he made the announcement. I still associate the initial shock with tearful, and adorable, old Jewish men.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Amy in StL says:I was at work in South Carolina in the federal building. Not a lot of work got done that morning as we all watched things unfold on the tv.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Max says:I was in LA getting ready for work. Driving to work listening to the whole thing unfold on the radio was surreal.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
brookLyn gaL says:I was in a theatre class my freshman year of college, discussing a play whose theme was that it is easier to choose to destroy than to choose to create.
It wasn’t until after the class that I learned what had happened.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:42 am
joanna says:I was buying breakfast at my office - cereal with strawberries. The cafeteria was on the 32nd floor, and the windows looked right over the Twin Towers. I saw something out of the corner of my eye as I was paying the cashier, and looked over to see the fireball exploding in the first tower. It was a completely surreal start to a completely surreal day.
By the time I got back downstairs to my group, there was paper raining down outside all the windows. Paper from the offices that just got blown apart. It blew all the way over to Brooklyn. I don’t remember the rest of the day as a flow - just as flash images.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Ri L. says:I was in my senior year of high school too, only I was in the suburbs of DC. I was on the floor between two desks containing two of my friends. I didn’t realize the full gravity of the situation until the principal made an announcement about it and one of my friends, whom nothing ever fazed, suddenly started crying. Another friend freaked out because her brother was in DC that day and we didn’t know yet what was safe and what wasn’t, so I held her hand throughout class. My English teacher said something about persevering in the face of evil and trying to concentrate on the good and held class anyway, but I don’t remember anything getting done. All through lunch and all through history class, we were glued to the TV until school let out early after 5th period.
My 17th birthday was exactly two weeks prior, and I’d gotten Paul Oakenfold’s Tranceport, which I was listening to. It ruined the album for me. I still can’t listen to half of it without being suddenly and vividly transported back to that day.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Paul says:I was in my junior year of college. Class wouldn’t start until 11, so I was alseep, but a roommate of mine was up watching TV before he left for his class. He rushed into our room and told us one of the towers had been hit. I woke up and ran to watch the TV at about the time the second tower hit. Needless to say, I did not go to class that day. I drove the half hour to my parents house and spent a few days with them. I think I missed classes the rest of the week.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Ha Ha Sound says:I’d been out late the night before, and got woken up right after the plane hit by a friend from Norway who wanted to make sure I was OK. When I asked what he was talking about, he told me to go outside. I went to the corner of Carmine and Varick, lost reception and then watched as the second plane hit.
September 11th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Benjamin Kabak says:I was asleep. My phone rang about 10 minutes before my alarm went off. It was my dad calling to say that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. At that point, we all thought it was still an accident. I went to class before the second plane hit. After class, I learned the shocking truth. It was not a fun day.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Quinn says:I was at school in my 2nd Grade class. at PS7Q. weirdly I kept thinking I could see the twin towers because of 2 long towers sticking out in the general direction of Downtown Manhattan. One of my teachers hada relative who worked at the Towers. I hope he’s alright.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
me says:city hall.. where everyone was running out screaming, “they bombed the empire state building!”
September 11th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Josh says:http://joshmsherman.tripod.com/Joshweek/jweek98.txt