Free Talk Thursday

The campus where I go for my grad school night classes got put into a hard lockdown last night with the school originally not saying why in their alert text/email. So for close to an hour, the rest of my class and I sat huddled in a corner with the lights off and door locked assuming that there was a shooter on campus and we were all going to die, which we thought was confirmed by tweet from a random person that had explicitly said there was an active shooter. I texted my parents and my girlfriend about how I thought there was a shooter on campus and that I was afraid I was going to die and how I loved them.

Turns out after all this panic there was never any shooter and it was just a “domestic violence” situation and the suspect was loose on campus. So instead of now huddling scared in the corner, we ended having to spend the next three hours stuck inside the building with police posted inside and outside until it got lifted at like 10:30 PM and we were all escorted out to our cars.

This story doesn’t really have a point as it just ended up being an inconvenience that I was there three hours longer than I needed to be, but thinking I really was going to die and there was nothing I could do to stop it really put a lot of things into perspective and made me realize how much I love my parents and girlfriend.

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