04-17-2007, 01:47 PM
Quote:While you're right about the "everyone's a winner" thing, I'm willing to bet this was a stress related breakdown.:rolleyes::rolleyes: Yeah, since being Asian is a fine precursor to suicide. :rolleyes: In other news, being an Arab predisposes you to strapping bombs around your waste and blowing up various places in Baghdad, while being European induces one to drink espresso. :whistling:
As a student at Georgia Tech (sister school to Virginia Tech both in the ACC and through research collaborations), I can tell you the stress around this time of the semester is overwhelming. I remember my freshman year a girl killed herself with a sawed-off shot gun in her dorm room in the building right next to mine. I honestly think people who don't go to highly competitive tech schools will never understand the stress associated with the end of the semester. Every class is on a curve. You're always competing against your classmates. I get 50s on tests and am excited because the average is a 40. My professors are so consumed by research that teaching is a hobby.
Highly competitive school, finals coming up and he was Asian so he was probably taking 21 hours of engineering or math courses. That's enough to make anyone go off the deep end.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete