That day he was normal: dorm mate Grewal

It was 5:30 am on Monday morning and Karan Grewal was finishing a break after a cramming for his classes at Virginia Tech. As he left the bathroom at Harper Hall, his dormitory mate Cho Seung-Hui, wearing boxers and a T-shirt, entered for his morning ritual of applying lotion, inserting his contact lenses and taking his medication.

“He was, like, normal,” Grewal, a 21-year-old accounting major, said on Tuesday, describing the ordinary start to what turned out to be an extraordinary day.

Grewal said he went back to sleep but, according to authorities,