COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – Students at the University of South Carolina are attempting to get back to normal.

Reports of an active shooter disturbed the first week back to school for students and faculty, putting campus on lock down for hours Sunday evening.

Sunday night at around 6:30, students at USC received a text message said “Active shooter at Thomas Cooper Library on Columbia campus.”

Many students said they were told to stay put.

The university’s police department said they believe the active shooter alert issued was part of a swatting hoax, also happening at other college campuses in recent weeks. Some students are not yet ready to come back to campus.

“I just didn’t I didn’t feel safe going back today, and I just needed to take a day to, like, process my thoughts,” said Makenly Powers, a USC student who hid in the Thomas Cooper Library.

Classes resumed Monday and USC Police said there is no threat on campus.

“All of us upstairs, there was probably eight of us. We all, hit the ground because we don’t know what to do,” said Powers. “We were all texting our parents, saying, ‘I love you. If I die, I love you’ because that’s how real it was to us.”

No shooter was found when law enforcement searched the campus. There are a lot of students here at the library and campus, Monday.

“I’m just trying to get through all my classes throughout the week,” said Shaun Rhodes, a sophomore. “I mean, this is the first Monday as well … I guess for me, today just feels like any other normal day. As you’re hearing, that everything was all clear, so I might as well just treat it like one.”

Not everyone agreed.

“We got alerts that there was an active shooter six times, and then all of a sudden they were just like, ‘oh, it’s all clear,’ and nothing happened,” Powers said. “Then you had all of the EMS, firefighters, all the law enforcement out, but now we’re just supposed to act like nothing happened.”

Some teachers cancelled class, some said class was optional, and some said students had to show up on Monday.

“She said it was okay if you did not show up to class. She got it. She understood the seriousness of the situation that happened yesterday,” said Xavier Meares, a student.

“I know a lot of my friends also didn’t feel safe going to class today, but their professors were like, ‘I’m still taking attendance because the university said so,'” Powers said.

The university said they are providing counseling to those need it and they are directing those students, faculty, and staff to the center for health and wellbeing.

USCPD also confirmed there were two minor injuries from the evacuation of the library, USC said both people were hospitalized and have been released.

The investigation in conjunction with SLED is still ongoing.