This guy was planning this for a LONG time....

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Virginia Tech students reacted with disgust, anger, shock and fear Thursday to the paranoid multimedia manifesto that student gunman Cho Seung-Hui mailed the morning of his Monday killing spree.

NBC News announced Wednesday night that it had received a package from Cho containing photos, 27 videos and an 1,800-word diatribe.

It appears the package was mailed after two people were killed at a dormitory early Monday and before Cho entered the university's Norris Hall and exacted the worst mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history. (Watch Cho's menacing last messages )

Karan Grewal, who once shared a dorm suite with Cho, said one of the videos appears to have been filmed in one of the dorm's common areas.

"It's just a scary feeling that maybe he was sitting out there the entire year trying to figure out our schedules so he could make these videos," Grewal said. "It's really scary that he was out there while we were in our rooms possibly."

Junior Kristy Venning told The Associated Press that she "just got chills" when she first saw his photo on television.

"It shows he put so much thought into this, and I think it's sick," she told the AP.

It was frightening enough that the 26,000-pupil school fell victim to a gunman who mercilessly unloaded the magazines of his semiautomatic pistols into students and faculty members, killing 30 at Norris before killing himself.

But for some students, Cho's manifesto made the tragedy even more terrifying. (Watch what the name on the package -- Ax Ishmael -- could mean )

"It was absolutely terrible. For someone to purposely know what they were going to do to our school and the community, there's no words for it," said sophomore Britney Rockwell, holding back tears.

The reaction of others was anger, not only at Cho for meticulously premeditating his rampage, but also at the media for airing his last recorded words and images.

Meredith Vieira, co-host of NBC's "Today" show, said some victims' relatives had canceled interviews with the network "because they were very upset with NBC for airing the images," the AP reported.

Student Robert Bowman, managing editor of the school newspaper, told CNN that he was conflicted: As a journalist, he wants to disseminate information; but as a student, he'd prefer that the tapes weren't released.

And you know what? It is pretty scary that we live in a society where people like Cho can live in a silent simmer, plotting to murder scores of people, and no one seems to notice that there is something wrong. This is sad...

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