The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has now been the scene of two lockdowns in less than a month.

Thursday, students and staff returned to regular classes and activities.

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“Me and my friends keep talking about like, how would it feel if you were a freshman. This is all you’ve known of the campus,” senior Emily Bissette said.

Being that it’s her senior year, Bissette said she’d trying not to let recent event change her path.

“The campus itself is all of our second home, if not our primary home, if you live on campus,” she said. “In a positive way, I think that people have come together about what happened.”

Bissette said she was in the same classroom Wednesday as Aug. 28, the day of an on-campus fatal shooting.

“People came running into my classroom from where the action was happening. There was several people breaking down crying, having panic attacks,” she described. “Just the stress we’ve been under emotionally since the first event, I’m sure impacted people’s reactions to that second event.”

Students and staff are now having to find ways to cope with their experiences over the last few weeks.

“Can you really cope with this, that this is a reality? I feel it’s not really processing fully. How is this supposed to process? This isn’t what it should be,” said freshman Sydney Norman.

She said she’d leaned on her close friends and a campus ministry. For her, she said going to class has been okay. However, that is not the case for everyone.

“A couple of my friends – especially the ones that were in Caudill the first one or the ones that were in Union this time – there’s no way they should’ve been going to classes today.”

University staff met earlier on Wednesday to discuss how to respond to shooting threats on campus in light of what happened in August.

“We talked about all those changes right after [the first lockdown]. None of them were even able to be made before the second round,” Norman said.

Students looking for support can contact Dean of Students team or Counseling and Psychological Services. A 24/7 hotline is also available at 919-966-3658. Faculty and staff should reach out to the Employee Assistance Program.