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Sad time for my alma mater/workplace I work at the school I graduated from, the University of South Carolina, and this was a tough week to be a Gamecock. Last Sunday morning, 7 college students lost their lives in a beach house fire in North Carolina, six from my school and one from Clemson. They had gone down to watch the USC-Tennessee game, partied a bit, and about 7:30 that morning a raging fire of unknown cause occurred, killing seven of the 13 students inside. In a matter of minutes all those hopes gone. An absolute tragedy.
What has been weird about the whole week is the aftermath that something like that has on a school. On Monday, the students names were not released so we were combing My Space and Facebook for memorials from other students, just so we could be prepared for when the names were released. Four of the 6 Gamecocks were in my department, two Freshmen and two Sophomores. We figured this out from the on-line sites and from people who knew them coming into the office that knew them before the names were officially released. Then come the official announcements and pulling the folders of these students, seeing pictures of smiling faces taken only months ago in the case of the Freshmen, faces filled with hope and excitement. And as the week went by, one memorial follwed another followed another. Just so tragic. I felt this week like I was playing a bit role in a movie or something. You know an extra in this blockbuster film. There was media from all over the country covering the story and here I was, just this small part of the process trying to figure how this was going to affect our academic unit. But of course more importantly how it was going to affect the family and friends of these lost souls. One of the students who perished has a brother who survived the accident and is also in our school My heart goes out to him and his family and to all the families. It is a hell I don't even want to imagine. Life is short and gone in a blink and it just takes one split second for a tragedy to occur. Young life lost in a blink is so hard to comprehend. It has just made me appreciate all the more what I have and how precious it all is. [Edited 11/3/07 19:16pm] All good things they say never last... | |
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i hadn't heard.  gotta
lives cut short are such a loss. 
kids who won't get to grow up and all that that entails.  She couldn't stop crying 'cause she knew he was gone to stay | |
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GottaLetitgo said: I work at the school I graduated from, the University of South Carolina, and this was a tough week to be a Gamecock. Last Sunday morning, 7 college students lost their lives in a beach house fire in North Carolina, six from my school and one from Clemson. They had gone down to watch the USC-Tennessee game, partied a bit, and about 7:30 that morning a raging fire of unknown cause occurred, killing seven of the 13 students inside. In a matter of minutes all those hopes gone. An absolute tragedy.
What has been weird about the whole week is the aftermath that something like that has on a school. On Monday, the students names were not released so we were combing My Space and Facebook for memorials from other students, just so we could be prepared for when the names were released. Four of the 6 Gamecocks were in my department, two Freshmen and two Sophomores. We figured this out from the on-line sites and from people who knew them coming into the office that knew them before the names were officially released. Then come the official announcements and pulling the folders of these students, seeing pictures of smiling faces taken only months ago in the case of the Freshmen, faces filled with hope and excitement. And as the week went by, one memorial follwed another followed another. Just so tragic. I felt this week like I was playing a bit role in a movie or something. You know an extra in this blockbuster film. There was media from all over the country covering the story and here I was, just this small part of the process trying to figure how this was going to affect our academic unit. But of course more importantly how it was going to affect the family and friends of these lost souls. One of the students who perished has a brother who survived the accident and is also in our school My heart goes out to him and his family and to all the families. It is a hell I don't even want to imagine. Life is short and gone in a blink and it just takes one split second for a tragedy to occur. Young life lost in a blink is so hard to comprehend. It has just made me appreciate all the more what I have and how precious it all is. [Edited 11/3/07 19:16pm] This has been all over the local news here, because one of the people who died in the fire is from Cleveland, Ohio (where I live). Soooo sad!  She was a beautiful girl, who looked like a model.RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Three of the women were members of Tri Delta -- sorority sisters of mine.  We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Genesia said: Three of the women were members of Tri Delta -- sorority sisters of mine.
The Tri-Delts were affected as well as the AOE fraternity. The campus has embraced the two and one Tri-Delt told me that their house looked like a flower boutique and that she didn't think she could eat any more cookies, with so many of them having being sent this week. The event has definitely brought the whole university together. All good things they say never last... | |
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