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The high-pressure environment of college has led to many legends that express the stresses and anxieties felt by students by describing desperate or bizarre behavior, especially in connection with examinations. The suicide and the special grading consideration given to other students affected by it are both elements found in one of the most widespread of collegiate legends, one holding that a student whose roommate commits suicide automatically receive a 4.0 grade point average for the current school term. A related legend treads similar ground, in a more grisly fashion: Though we've yet to happen upon an instance of a despondent student ending his life in such fashion, an article in a 2000 neurological magazine described the case of a male in-patient in a psychiatric ward who was found to have shoved a 14 cm ball-point pen up through his nasal passages and lodged it between the two hemispheres of his brain. (A full length pencil was also retrieved from his nose.) The pen was removed and the patient made an uneventful recovery. If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health, suicide or substance use crisis or emotional distress, reach out 24/7 to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) by dialing or texting 988 or using chat services at suicidepreventionlifeline.org to connect to a trained crisis counselor.
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