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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, I just read that article linked on the first page. I was something like Madison about 29 years ago - an overachiever who went to Penn and found myself miserable and feeling like a failure. I don't think I ever contemplated suicide, but I definitely engaged in a brief faux eating disorder, saw a therapist, and filled out transfer applications. In the end, I wound up staying and having an amazing experience - the doors I opened during my sophomore year opened my mind to worlds I never knew before. That period of my life really shaped my career and indirectly my family too (since I met my husband thru work.) But that possibility wasn't remotely apparent to me during me depressed freshman year.

My kids aren't yet at the college stage, but I have a lot of friends whose kids are applying or already there. I always tell them how much I hated it the first year, how long it took to find my "tribe" etc. Nowadays the pressure is so much higher - schools like Penn are exponentially harder to get into, and social media magnifies everyone else's seeming happiness until I can see how easy it must have been for these young people with so much to live for to lose sight of that. [/quote]

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