The above quote is from Michael Fontaine (Class of 2003 phD). Read the full memory below:

I was sitting at a computer terminal in the Rock when the first plane hit the Twin Towers on 9/11. A message popped up on Yahoo’s home screen announcing the tower had been hit. Nobody around me seem to have heard, but when I walked out to the lobby a circulation librarian had already set up a TV and a few people were gathering to watch that day’s events unfold.

I spent many—too many, surely—hours in the Rock during my time at Brown, but I’ll never forget those few vivid minutes of 13 years ago.