Carthik Sharma

Morbid

Thursday, May 1, 2003

After a long time, I was chatting with a college-friend who is a grad student at Cornell. After listening to what I had to say about my “progress” she said, “Great, you are doing just swell!” I was wondering why till she told me that three students at Cornell passed away recently. Two of them were Indian graduate students. One of them hanged himself to death, while another died because he did not eat at all. Vinod used to survive on Vitamin pills, it seems. He just collapsed in the chemistry lab one night, never to wake up again. A google news search led to pages where I could read the censored news reports. This is way too bad. The price people pay on the way to a Professiorate… I would never take it that far. Life is more important than a Ph.D., but I can understand why they would have committed suicide. To reach the dizzying heights of Cornell only to fail miserably by accident or due to any other reason would have left them with little choice as to what to do next.

Alright, people, I know, this sounds too morbid, but I am okay. If I were to say this to you face to face it would have been alright, but since I have to fall back on this medium, there is no other way I can put it.

I feel really releived now. I am in a much better situation than a lot of other people, and really there is no problem. I still have a level head, and lots of things to do, which will certainly lead the way to a lot of interesting futures. I can pick mine, even now.

Filed by Carthik at 4:11 pm under Livejournal

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Thursday, May 1, 2003

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