Quoted By:
20/M
Played a lot of video games when I was younger, but I've fallen off (on?) the wagon over the last few years. I have been to exactly two (college) parties and left as soon as I could. I go through a bottle of wine per week; I don't know how/if that'll change when I turn 21 this month. I have a few really good friends, but mostly casual acquaintances. Love coffee and tea and music.
Third year electrical engineering and math student at a top 10 university in the US (sheerly by the grace of many, many good people throughout my life). Plan on applying to PhD programs in the winter. That being said, this shit's really, really hard, and the pressure never lets up. Somehow, we're told, we have to trounce the best of the best to have a shot in getting where we want to go. I'm not sure whether I love the pressure cooker or whether I just tell myself that, but I cling to it because I don't know what I'd do otherwise. The incidence of mental health problems on this campus (and others like it) is really alarming, but not at all surprising. The problem is, we have every motivation in the world to conceal it, so many do. And either they cope, or they drink, or they drop out, or they kill themselves - many of us know people in all of these categories.
