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Re:MIT students open up about stress by kimbo305 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:22PM (#9220567)
> I have seen a dozen people shuffled off to McLean or just kicked out for years until they could convince MIT to let them back in. In all but one case I think MIT overreacted and significantly damaged those individual's lives by isolating instead of supporting them

can you list some examples? I had to see a Medical Center counselor (who I didn't like that much) for therapy for a couple semesters, but in general I thought the support offered was well-intentioned and appropriate.

> You know you've seen it too.

I saw some of that ('06), but always thought those people were idiots.

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Re:MIT students open up about stress by neltnerb on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:04PM (#9223144)
I don't think it would be appropriate to name names. I also used MIT Mental Health, and don't think just using them was sufficient. The problems from my point of view were when someone withdrew from school for a semester due to whatever problem (death in the family, depression, overwork, etc) and couldn't get back in.

In at least one case it took 8 years to get back in, on average I'd guess 2-3 years of forced unenrollment. The one I think was the best off was the one who just gave up on the nonsense and went to a different university where he subsequently graduated with honors, probably also with a lot less stress.

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