Everyone here will try to cope with what has 
happened in their own way.  Although pushing 
forward with everyday life will help for some 
people, others simply _need_ to take a few days 
to stand back, sit down, and take their thoughts 
away from the world.

At the university that I'm at, I see people 
coping with this tragedy in more ways that I 
could have imagined.  Personally, I spent a 
large amount of time yesterday cleaning and 
rearranging things in my room without much of a 
real reason to do so, other than that that's 
just what I do when I'm under stress.

One of my professors in the Fine Arts department 
was contemplating the amount of artwork that 
will be produced by people trying to express 
their grief over the countless deaths.  I've 
also heard of a Chemistry instructor giving a 
lecture on how and why a building collapses when 
a plane runs into it.  Although some might see 
focusing on possible artwork as frivilous or 
analyzing the science of what has happend as 
insensitive or callous, I see both as equally 
valid responses -- it helps just as many people 
to express their feelings through artwork as it 
does to cling to the natural laws of physics 
that both allow such tragedies to happen and 
give structure to the universe.

I still went to classes, I still went to work, 
and I still checked keep-track as I normally 
would.  Still, I didn't get much work done in 
class or on the job, and even an update that 
would have otherwise made me ectatic didn't seem 
to matter much.  Perhaps as just an effect of 
shock, I was just going through the motions of a 
regular day, without ever really putting much 
focus on what I was doing.

Hoping that this is as helpful to anyone else as 
it was to me writing it,
Tim