A friend of mine goes to Virginia Tech and experienced the tragedy last year, these events at colleges are happening too much. A fellow &lt;GT&gt; member just graduated from NIU just last year. I talked to him last night about it and just from listening to him I know a little better how hard it must be for something like this to happen so close at home. My college sent out a big email ensuring safety and all that but you can never be so sure, and never be as safe as you think. It&#39;s really scary, especially as a student myself, that this can happen anywhere. My heart goes out to these students and their families.