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Less than one year after that article, Harvey Mudd's President says the last year was the school's worst ever resulting in a suicide, nearly 10% of the students
by caseysoftware 9y ago
Less than one year after that article, Harvey Mudd's President says the last year was the school's worst ever resulting in a suicide, nearly 10% of the students on suicide watch, and having to simplify the curriculum from hard STEM with more electives.
As someone who nearly went there (accepted but opted for one of their rivals), it's disappointing to see.
Ref: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/02/540603927/a-college-president-on-her-schools-worst-year-ever http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/02/540603927/a-colleg...
- Animats 9y agoHarvey Mudd internal report mentioned: [1] (That's now inaccessable (403 Forbidden), and the page that linked to it, "http://tsl.news/news/6611/" http://tsl.news/news/6611/", is failing with a Ngnix error (502 Bad Gateway).) I got to read it before it went down, and it sounded like they'd reached the student workload levels associated with the first two years of any serious engineering school. Their restructured student body wasn't ready for that. [1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/content_link/S4gumhMUSUdKBJ5MO6vsEF6EiRtQCDE1hBRJCsIlq4fAzL9JryWeOWdWGtmGnTLZ/file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/content_link/S4gumhMUSUdKB...
- caseysoftware 9y agoHa. It's funny that it's gone now. I read it just after I posted my comment. That's just a coincidence.. right? Also, the first two years at an engineering school is awful by definition. Generally by then you learn to a) prioritize, b) take the right combo of classes, or c) go somewhere else. I opted for a & b but many friends and smart people opted for c.
- Animats 9y agoIf you go here [1] sometimes you can get the report. They may have a caching server that's out of sync. If the document is too small to read, open its frame in a new window. [1] http://tsl.news/news/6611/ http://tsl.news/news/6611/