After learning about the fire which took the lives of seven college students I did the whole Facebook thing where I looked up their names, clicked on their profiles and caught a glimpse of their lives. Except this time the kids were from my school.

I didn't know them, but I did. I'm sure we had been to football games together, eaten in the cafeteria at the same time, shared a class or passed each other a million times without knowing. It's strange seeing your school on CNN, your campus being filmed by dozens of camera crews, your president giving a press conference. It's eerie to know that it wasn't you but it just as easily could have been.