Yo Yo Ma's view on Harvard

seachen
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:03:06 +0000

Currently a senior at Harvard and couldn’t agree more with Yo Yo Ma. The only bright part of Harvard is the people you meet because they are some of the most amazing people in the world. The institution itself, aside from the name, is fairly disappointing. Professors could not care less about you and administrators deal with you only to the extent that it does not inconvenience them. I’ve had friends suffer severe depression at Harvard as a result of the environment, and then, when they tried to commit suicide in a cry for help, Harvard responded by institutionalizing them into a psychiatric ward of a hospital for a week and then kicking them out of school for a year, just to avoid liability issues. The administration treated them as if they had leprosy.