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Cornell University Suicide Bridge

Cornell University to monitor students’ suicide risk weekly. Business students have a higher chance of committing suicide.

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The Cascadilla Gorge bordering Cornell University's campus has been the scene of many a student's suicidal plunge over the last couple of decades. The university recently began monitoring each student's risk weekly and aims to inform parents if there are anydoubts about their offspring's mental health.

Graduate students are more likely to commit suicide than peers of the same age who are not in education. And among them, business students are the most endangered species.

Based on suggestions from student counselors at the Florida Institute of Technology, here are a few ways to ward off those dark moods.

Exercise more and try to get over your eating disorder

Study art instead of business or science

Have lots of friends

Don't get disappointed or angry and, most importantly, don't fail your degree. Frustration increases your risk of committing suicide

If you're Asian or Hispanic there isn't a lot you can do about it, but if you're an international student go home

If you're male, try changing your gender

Do something spirit-lifting during the spring and summer months: statistically, they have the highest rates of suicide

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Comments

8 November 2011

I know! That list of advice is enough to make anyone jump!!

Sian Fleming-Jones

7 November 2011

Is that seriously what the student counselors at the Florida Institute of Technology gave as suggestions? Glad I don't study there, they sound like a bunch of idiots. Suicide isn't a joke and suggestions like "changing your gender" is really not helpful in any way.

Just saying

21 August 2009

maybe they need to re-staff their counselors over there? how can you tell someone to stop failing? or change from business to art?? Good choice of picture by the journalist.

Anonymous