My personal experience at Yale differs quite a bit from hers. A lot of my friends and I struggled through our experiences at Yale. Things sucked a lot at time

My personal experience at Yale differs quite a bit from hers. A lot of my friends and I struggled through our experiences at Yale. Things sucked a lot at times but there's a certain unity that results from collective suffering. Maybe it's because I'm recollecting the entire 4 years while she's still doing her undergraduate studies. Things weren't always alright but I did get a break when I needed it. I went to the Department of Undergraduate Health after having really bad headaches, like someone was stabbing me in the forehead. They checked some stuff but the doctor basically said I was working myself to death. I was definitely struggling at that point. He told me to take a few days off and wrote a note for me. I took it to my dean and he wrote another note that basically allowed me to turn in all my work late for about a week or so. I rested and things got better. I don't think I was alone in struggling and receiving help. It's a bit hard for me to reconcile the considerably more compassionate response I received from Yale with her experience. Is Yale so extreme that once you cross a threshold they become stone cold? People struggle in college. It's strange for me to read that everyone around her is acting OK. I would have told her that things are tough if we had been classmates. It's pretty depressing at times watching the sunrise from the windows of the computer lab. Or in my moment of triumph after getting my toy OS to run there is no one around to share that joy with because most people are asleep at 6 AM on Saturday. I'm not saying her account isn't true for her but Yale is a big and diverse place. It might to good to be around different people. Go hang out with the CS people in the computer lab on Friday night at 11PM. They will tell you things aren't alright and thanks for the company.