<p>[MacGregor</a> freshman found dead - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N48/tonegawa.html]MacGregor”>http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N48/tonegawa.html)
^discovered a little bit more about his family</p>
<p>“Prof. Tonegawa, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is a controversial figure. In 2006, Tonegawa resigned as director of MITs Picower Institute for Learning and Memory after an investigation found he had inappropriately discouraged neuroscientist Alla Y. Karpova from taking a job at MIT because their research interests overlapped. Prof. Tonegawa was in Japan when he was alerted to his sons death, the Mainichi Daily News reported, but has since returned to the U.S.”</p>
<p>“Hidde Tonegawa 09, Susumus other son, graduated from MIT in 2009 and majored in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.”</p>
<p>We can all speculate on the reasons behind his self inflicted asphyxiation. Officially, it was determined to be suicide. Perhaps other pieces of the puzzle of his life helped come to the conclusion that suicide is indeed the most logical explanation for his self inflicted asphyxiation. Every article I’ve read about this story mentions tutors. It isn’t far fetched for a student from a family where extreme high academic success is prized above everything else to feel that nothing he does will ever measure up to what has all ready been accomplished by others. Speculation?–sure. Perhaps not even his family or friends understood the pressure he may have felt to live up to such high expectations.</p>