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Imposters at MIT? Stop the Victim Blaming

For many years, MIT's rate of suicide was far above the national average and it remains so. Most recently, six students died by suicide over about a year ending in March, including two freshman one week, which led MIT to lighten course loads it had misjudged.

My memories of MIT in the 1980's reflect just that: very bright classmates' who were unhappy due to intense academic pressure. The top engineering school was often, needlessly, a place of systemized misery.

The chancellor and the head of mental health denied interview requests for the NPR article. So I'll weigh in.