Princeton has 8 suicides in 3 years

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We toured Princeton and the stress on that campus was palpable. Not a smile in site. Our tour guide spent 10 minutes talking about the mental health offerings and how more are needed.

Harvard, despite the cold and dreary weather, seemed much happier. We were surprised.

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Anonymous wrote:We toured Princeton and the stress on that campus was palpable. Not a smile in site. Our tour guide spent 10 minutes talking about the mental health offerings and how more are needed.

Harvard, despite the cold and dreary weather, seemed much happier. We were surprised.

Complete opposite experience at both, it really is luck of the draw sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:We toured Princeton and the stress on that campus was palpable. Not a smile in site. Our tour guide spent 10 minutes talking about the mental health offerings and how more are needed.

Harvard, despite the cold and dreary weather, seemed much happier. We were surprised.

Recently?

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Anonymous wrote:Asian Princeton kid on YouTube sounds so unhappy there. Is it that bad?

He has clearly experienced a lot of trauma in his life and is probably dealing with complex PTSD. Princeton has its share of careerist students who got where they are by being hyper-competitive, fake, and manipulative.

There are also wonderful people and brilliant minds there.

He sounds like he needed an especially nurturing environment and, depending on what he majored in, he may be encountering a cohort of unpleasantly hyper competitive classmates.

Does anyone know what happened to that young man? I was worried about him when I saw that video last year. I wonder if he stuck it out at Princeton or transferred. I hope he is doing well.

He’s still there. He graduates in May.

[Anonymous]

Someone has committed suicide pretty much every semester my son has been at school. These kids are in crisis everywhere. Look no further to see the mentality on this board to figure out why. The push for "greatness" by creating fake narratives and the ivy or bust mentality is crushing them.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone has committed suicide pretty much every semester my son has been at school. These kids are in crisis everywhere. Look no further to see the mentality on this board to figure out why. The push for "greatness" by creating fake narratives and the ivy or bust mentality is crushing them.

The kids are in crisis and it is everywhere, not just the top, there were 7 suicides in one year at NCSU in 2023.

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Anonymous wrote:We toured Princeton and the stress on that campus was palpable. Not a smile in site. Our tour guide spent 10 minutes talking about the mental health offerings and how more are needed.

Harvard, despite the cold and dreary weather, seemed much happier. We were surprised.

Was it an exam week? Was thinking today as I talked to my own how different tours must be this week versus next.

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Anonymous wrote:Our youngest is at Princeton. It feels like there are far more rules and the administration is far less understanding and flexible compared to our oldest child's experience at another Ivy. For instance, Princeton students are forbidden from getting outside tutoring if they are having difficulty in a class (it is considered an honor code violation). The students are supposed to use the student tutors provided by the school, but there aren't nearly enough to go around. So a student having difficulties in a class who is unable to secure one of the few tutors is left to completely flounder or risk getting an honor code violation by seeking outside help. That doesn't make sense to me.

This is our experience. It is not a loose and easy place. It's very regimented.

There are extensive resources available through the university to provide academic support, so they don’t permit students to pay outside tutors to do their work for them. It’s a perfectly sensible policy, and those who chafe at it should be taking other courses or enrolled elsewhere.

The policy makes no sense. Tutors can help but they are not taking midterm or final exams for the kids. Some kids need extra support

Again, there are plenty of resources available through the university for students wanting assistance or needing academic support.

Prove it. Wishing doesn't make it so.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone has committed suicide pretty much every semester my son has been at school. These kids are in crisis everywhere. Look no further to see the mentality on this board to figure out why. The push for "greatness" by creating fake narratives and the ivy or bust mentality is crushing them.

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Cornell just had another suicide. That school is HARD, and the weather often makes it bleak!

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell just had another suicide. That school is HARD, and the weather often makes it bleak!

Is it the social atmosphere or academics? What makes it so difficult?

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell just had another suicide. That school is HARD, and the weather often makes it bleak!

The one a few weeks ago?

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell just had another suicide. That school is HARD, and the weather often makes it bleak!

Is it the social atmosphere or academics? What makes it so difficult?

It’s the type of student they admit imo (anxious, striver)

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UMD has had several very public deaths in the past few years, it's not just Ivys. Kids are struggling everywhere.

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I think it’s the narrowness of kids’ views of the world, as a series of specific milestones and goals to grind their way past. They don’t see that there are a million different ways to live, some of which might suit them better.

Also, they don’t eat well, don’t get enough sleep, live in gross dorms and are sick a lot. College isn’t set up for health.