Coping

February 15th, 2008 at 01:28pm Collin Quick

I graduated from NIU in December 2006. I’ve had a good amount of people here ask me if I’m OK, how am I doing, etc. It’s weird because I haven’t been in DeKalb since August. While I still have friends there, there isn’t much bringing me back to the ‘ole campus.

And now I feel like if I go back - when I go back - that it’s going to be out of pity or grief. I’ve watched friend after friend on their Facebook or MySpace page change from a photo of themselves to a black and red ribbon with an NIU Huskie on it. I’ve talked to people and they are basically numb. No emotions, no reactions. Just a sense of “wow, it happened here.” You can hear it in their voices.

I think the headline on our 1A today said it all.

No. Not here.

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