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Farhan Towhid reportedly posted a letter on Instagram before he and his older brother died by suicide after allegedly killing the other four members of their family. In response, students from the college he attended are making demands for greater mental health support. Advertisement Hide
Towhid, a 19-year-old former computer science student at the University of Texas at Austin, said he dropped out of college in January, one week after getting evicted from his dorm. In a statement to the Daily Dot, the university said Towhid canceled his housing contract himself after withdrawing from the university.
“The news of this story is devastating, and we express our deepest sympathies to the extended family and friends of Farhan Towhid,” the statement said.
College & COVID
It wasnât supposed to be this way: The unrelenting stress of being in college during a pandemic
One study found that 18- to 23-year-olds seem to be experiencing pandemic-related stress at higher rates than any other adult age group.
By Katie PowersUpdated April 8, 2021, 9:40 a.m.
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Scattered due dates, isolating with roommates, and Zoom office hours have replaced the energizing hustle and bustle college students had come to expect prior to the pandemic. Even for someone as self-disciplined as Helen Ruhlin, a senior at Simmons University studying journalism, taking classes entirely online has been a slog. âKnowing thereâs a laundry list of things you canât do because of a pandemic is just so stifling mentally,â she says. Without in-person interaction with her professors and classmates, sheâs finding coursework less engaging.
COVID AND STUDENTS
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HILLSDALE - As the COVID-19 pandemic upended life for everyone, students have faced a variety of burdens, ranging from cancelled events to mental health and financial issues.
In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education, various surveys have been conducted by sites like Science Digest to recover the causal impact of the pandemic on students current and expected outcomes.
One study found that due to COVID-19: 13 percent of students have delayed graduation, 40 percent have lost a job, internship, or job offer, and 29 percent expect to earn less at age 35.
Moreover, these effects have been highly heterogeneous. One quarter of students increased their study time by more than 4 hours per week due to COVID-19, while another quarter decreased their study time by more than 5 hours per week. This heterogeneity often followed existing socioeconomic divides. Lower-income students are 55 percent more likely than their highe
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