Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior majoring in English, arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington, D.C., officials said. He was living on campus in a different dorm from the one where Monday's bloodbath began.

Police and university officials offered no clues as to exactly what set him off on the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," school spokesman Larry Hincker said. (学校发言人说,他是一个独行者,找不到更多信息)

Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university's English department, said she did not know Cho. But she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled." (再系里就是问题人物)

"There was some concern about him," Rude said. "Sometimes, in creative writing, people reveal things and you never know if it's creative or if they're describing things, if they're imagining things or just how real it might be. But we're all alert to not ignore things like this." (他所在的创造性写作班,你无法从他们的作业中知道他们所写的到底是真是假)

She said Cho was referred to the counseling service, but she said she did not know when, or what the outcome was. Rude refused to release any of his writings or his grades, citing privacy laws. (因为隐私法律问题,老师不能透露更多他的成绩或作业信息)

The Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site that he left a note in his dorm room that included a rambling list of grievances. Citing unidentified sources, the Tribune said he had recently shown troubling signs, including setting a fire in a dorm room and stalking some women.

ABC, citing law enforcement sources, reported that the note, several pages long, explains Cho's actions and says, "You caused me to do this."

Investigators believe Cho at some point had been taking medication for depression, the Tribune reported.

Classmates said that on the first day of an introduction to British literature class last year, the 30 or so English students went around and introduced themselves. When it was Cho's turn, he didn't speak. (自我介绍时一言不发)

The professor looked at the sign-in sheet and, where everyone else had written their names, Cho had written a question mark. "Is your name, `Question mark?"' classmate Julie Poole recalled the professor asking. The young man offered little response. (签名用问号)

Cho spent much of that class sitting in the back of the room, wearing a hat and seldom participating. In a small department, Cho distinguished himself for being anonymous. "He didn't reach out to anyone. He never talked," Poole said.

"We just really knew him as the question mark kid," Poole said.

The rampage consisted of two attacks, more than two hours apart - first at a dormitory, where two people were killed, then inside a classroom building, where 31 people, including Cho, died after being locked inside, Virginia State Police said. Cho committed suicide; two handguns - a 9 mm and a .22-caliber - were found in the classroom building.

One law enforcement official said Cho's backpack contained a receipt for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol. Cho held a green card, meaning he was a legal, permanent resident, federal officials said. That meant he was eligible to buy a handgun unless he had been convicted of a felony.

Roanoke Firearms owner John Markell said his shop sold the Glock and a box of practice ammo to Cho 36 days ago for $571.

"He was a nice, clean-cut college kid. We won't sell a gun if we have any idea at all that a purchase is suspicious," Markell said. Markell said it is not unusual for college kids to make purchases at his shop as long as they are old enough.

"To find out the gun came from my shop is just terrible," Markell said.

Investigators stopped short of saying Cho carried out both attacks. But ballistics tests show one gun was used in both, Virginia State Police said.

And two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho's fingerprints were found on both guns. The serial numbers on the two weapons had been filed off, the officials said.

Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said it was reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both attacks but that the link was not yet definitive. "There's no evidence of any accomplice at either event, but we're exploring the possibility," he said.

Officials said Cho graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., in 2003. His family lived in an off-white, two-story townhouse in Centreville, Va.

Two of those killed in the shooting rampage, Reema Samaha and Erin Peterson, graduated from Westfield High in 2006, school officials said. But there was no immediate word from authorities on whether Cho knew the two young women and singled them out.

"He was very quiet, always by himself," neighbor Abdul Shash said. Shash said Cho spent a lot of his free time playing basketball and would not respond if someone greeted him. He described the family as quiet.

South Korea expressed its condolences, and said it hoped that the tragedy would not "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation." "We are in shock beyond description," said Cho Byung-se, a Foreign Ministry official handling North American affairs.

学校的咨询中心是不是应该对这些有Antisocial倾向的个案多一些关注呢?

微软最新启动了一个I'm活动。

I'm，是微软的一个资助慈善组织的活动。

你可以在你的Windows Live Messenger的昵称前加上一个特殊代码，以表示你支持9个慈善组织中的其中一个，而你的昵称前也会出现一个I'm的标志。所有参加此活动的慈善组织都将在此活动的第一年获得最低10万美元的捐款，最高不限上额。而最高能达到多少，则取决于有多少人愿意在自己的昵称前加上该组织的代码。

以下是参加活动的组织的代码： 
American Red Cross ——准备提供帮助。代码：*red+u
Boys and Girls Clubs of America ——为孩子提供理想的环境。代码：*bgca
National AIDS Fund ——与艾滋病（AIDS）抗争。代码：*naf
National MS Society ——参与到解决多发性硬化症（MS）的运动。代码：*mssoc
ninemillion.org ——帮助9百万流离失所的孩子。代码：*9mil
Sierra Club ——探索和保护这个星球。代码：*sierra
StopGlobalWarming.org ——阻止全球变暖。代码：*help
Susan G. Komen for the Cure ——寻找乳腺癌的治愈方法。代码：*komen
UNICEF ——救助生死边缘徘徊的孩子。代码：*unicef

本来是准备选Red Cross，结果一看好像有地域限制，所以决定改成*9mil。 因为看起来这个组织的目标相对来说很具体很明确，易于他们真正实施行动，另外总觉得家对一个人的成长真的好重要，希望这些孩子都有机会感受家的温暖。

其实在选择添不添加以及添加什么组织的同时，我们也在审视自己的价值观，这些对我来说是不是重要，哪些又相对重要，在选择的时候会考虑这个组织的什么方面？整理自己是怎么想的，也是了解自己的好方法～

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Sexy Beijing

为什么现在那么多中国人都有英文名字？为什么现在满大街的人都在过圣诞节？为什么人们会花那么多钱照婚纱照？为什么中国人都那么喜欢往城市里挤，农村生活是什么样子的？。。。发现从一个外国人眼里看，一个个我们那么习以为常的小事，都变得非常的有趣。

有时候在这里常常会被别人问得语噎， 那些看起来约定俗成的事情，在他们看来是那么新鲜有趣，偏要问出个所以然来，但我们通常的反映就是，我们从来都是这样的，没有什么为什么。但是有时候也会遇到一些问题，那些自己应该知道，或者也应该好奇为什么的问题，我们偏偏不知道，也不好奇。举个例子，一个研究中国文化的牧师问：为什么故宫的主色调是红和黄却叫作紫禁城呢？人人都说今年是金猪年，很幸运，可是如果用五行来排今年应该不是“金”，那为什么呢？

。。。我就在想，为什么我从来没有奇怪过这些问题？

不罗嗦了，截了一段Sexy Beijing， 看过Sex and the city的人应该更有共鸣^^

想找全部的几集，登陆http://www.youtube.com 搜索就好了：）