<p>Personally I get jokes about Cornell suicide a lot, and I almost never go home without someone joking about jumping into a gorge when the topic of Cornell comes up. Honestly I don’t understand how people continue to believe these things when, as previous posters have pointed out, the facts point to Cornell actually having rather few suicides considering its size. I used to try to explain to people that this was a myth, but people just don’t want to hear it. they want to believe that Cornell is some awful, stressful, boring place. So now I just nod and go along with it. It all comes down to the fact that Cornell has a large student body and, as mentioned, plunging to death in a gorge is a lot more notable than, say, hanging yourself in your room. You don’t walk into a dorm room and think “oh someone may have committed suicide in here”. However, you can look out over the beautiful gorges and instinctively feel a fear of falling/heights and can be constantly reminded of the possibility of death. Or, if you’re a normal person, you can just recognize the gorges as a unique and “gorgeous” part of Cornell.</p>