Question about Cornell Life

Islander4
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:02:24 +0000

There haven’t been “a lot” of suicides, but there were two big ones last year that made media attention. Unfortunately, this and the gorges common around the campus and Ithaca make it seem that suicides are a frequent phenomenon. Suicides themselves aren’t common, but there are incidents every year in which people get involved with the gorges.

As for the student body, I can’t speak for all of it. The environment, though, isn’t happy, happy. People generally keep to themselves in public, but most folks aren’t real jerks anyway. Almost everyone gets quite stressed with work at some point or another and there are people that do fall into depression. I would not say, however, that this is an obvious thing.