Guest column by Ritika Philip | We need to rethink success
This past Monday, we all suffered a great loss. I was shocked and saddened to hear that a Penn student took her own life, but as cavalier as this may sound, I wasn’t too surprised. Our university has had a string of suicides over the past three years and that by no means creates a culture that condones suicide, but it makes it start to feel like ‘something that might happen at Penn.’