I was a sophomore studying accounting at Portland State University in Oregon.
Today, Ms. Johnson, a sophomore studying communications, is not unlike her peers at State University of New York in New Paltz.
But Mr. Bliss, then a sophomore studying music at Grand Rapids Community College, was just getting started.
Now a sophomore studying pre-med in the honors program, she is not so sure she made the right choice.
Ms. Conwell, who is a sophomore studying brain and cognitive sciences, said she was glad to have her roommate back.
Michelle Pernice, 20, a St. John's University sophomore studying pharmaceutical science, became involved in the fund-raiser in 11th grade.
Thomas Owens, a sophomore studying chemical engineering, said he was accepted to Duke University, where tuition and fees top $55,000.
"If they are willing to change their ways, why don't they let them?" asked Sandeep M. Jani, 19, a sophomore studying biopsychology.
Alexander Cull of Doylestown, Pa., a sophomore studying molecular biology, said that some exams were interrupted by evacuations, and that now he was taking all of those tests online.
Kevin Costello, a sophomore studying biomedical engineering at Stony Brook, politely vented his "frustration and confusion" when he learned that employees at the former bookstore could not help when Amazon sent him the wrong course material.
