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...Sadness can be hard to articulate, too. Our task now should be to offer more channels for students to do just that. Last term, I didn’t realize I was depressed until I told someone I was. I felt estranged from friends and family. I worried all the time. I lost interest in activities I used to love, and started sleeping for longer and longer periods of time. Even then, I didn’t understand that I needed help until I said the words, “I’m unhappy,” and someone...
...Equally unsettling are the justifications that students offer for their decisions. The truth is that the most common mental health problems faced by students are, in fact, highly treatable. Moreover, in many cases there are multiple ways to address a given problem—meaning that treatment is also highly flexible and efficient. Much of the stigma and shame that students feel when they struggle with emotional distress comes from the widely held belief that their experience is uncommon. In reality, emotional distress is very common among college students, including those who go to Harvard. In a recent survey...
...effort to optimize use of available airplanes. “We now have the capacity to fly out of Boston,” said Hawkins. Hawkins said the company is not worried about competition from other low-fare carriers like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways. “We offer very different products and even different destinations,” Hawkins said. Southwest has not yet announced specific service details, saying only that it will offer a “conservative number of flights” in a press release announcing the change. The Dallas-based company has been serving...
...Life,” which may be found—for those willing to risk time better spent—at www.fmylife.com.Browsing through the site, one gets the impression that fmylife is much more emblematic of the national mood than whatever’s on offer at change.gov. The contents provide a disheartening image of the American psyche as a mental landscape whose anxiety cannot be assuaged by visions of hope and change but rather dwells upon the consequences of economic “structural adjustment.”Fmylife works by presenting an array of reader-submitted faux...
...General Assembly to lift the moratorium could still take up to two years to complete. But already in rural Pittsylvania, which has one of the state's highest unemployment rates, debate is fierce. Supporters say new mining technology will allow miners to get the uranium safely, the mine would offer much-needed jobs to 300 people, and the uranium would fuel new reactors and help the nation kick its foreign oil habit. Opponents point out that almost all uranium mining in the United States occurs in arid, sparsely populated places out west that are geologically unlike anything in Virginia...