Thank God college life is behind me. While there were some sweet times, I can’t express how grateful I am to have moved beyond the days when cooking my own dinner meant microwaving my Tupperware to death and interior design involved Christmas lights and Bob Marley posters. Sparking those warm memories was this week’s New York Times Magazine all about college life. Along with humorous and bittersweet essays by young, emerging writers, and William Safire’s dissection of Campuspeak is an exclusive web documentary by Deirdre Fishel about suicide on campus. With in-depth interviews with school officials, psychologists, and family members of students who committed suicide while away at school, the film touches on thought-provoking issues such as therapist-patient confidentiality on campus and the difficulty of recognizing signs of mental illness through the stresses and stimuli of college life. The film, which is only 15 minutes long, won’t be up for any statuettes come Oscar time—it’s got a workplace-safety-video quality to it, and the graphics are less than stellar—but it covers an often sensationalized issue with a thoughtful eye.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 \ 6:07 am \ Uncategorized
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