Cornell Sophomore Dies at 19At 11:26 a.m. on Saturday, 14850.com tweeted about a technical rescue operation underway at Fall Creek gorge near Willard Way; IPD announced around 8 p.m. that the body of a 19-year-old male had been found, but did not release his identity.
Phillip Zukowski ’23, a sophomore studying computer science, was found dead Saturday near Ezra’s Tunnel in the Ithaca Falls Natural Area, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi wrote in a Sunday afternoon statement. The cause of his death is currently unknown.
Zukowski was a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he was interested in computer science. He transferred to Cornell from Grinnell College in the fall 2020 semester, and had joined the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and lived in Becker House. He was 19.
As a high school student in Jamaica, Queens, he learned Python through the Google Ignite computer science program at Columbia University, according to Lombardi.
The Ithaca Fire Department, the Tompkins County Medical Examiner’s Office, Bangs Ambulance and Cornell University Police also responded to the scene. IPD is continuing to investigate the incident, but currently does not suspect the death to be the result of a criminal act.
Leaderboard 2 Anyone who may have been in the area of North Willard Way and Ezra’s Tunnel between the hours of 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 8 is asked to contact the Ithaca Police Department at 607-330-0000 or by using the anonymous tip form at www.cityofithaca.org/ipdtips.
This is the fifth unexpected student death in the past school year. First-year computer science student Shawn West ’24 was found unresponsive in a dorm room after a day of search in early April. Health care policy student Matthew Crovella ’23 died unexpectedly of a medical episode in late January. At the end of the fall semester, chemistry and chemical biology Ph.D. student Wai Hang (Will) Lee died unexpectedly; in December, environment and sustainability student KAR Robison ’22 died unexpectedly.
Support meetings are being scheduled for the Cornell community, as well as organizations that Zukowski was most closely engaged with, Lombardi said.
a small College to a very demanding university in this case-- the depth and challenging of classes from two kinds of schools are so huge that the students could not adapt to the new environment at all-- for instance, one might get straight As in a school, but may badly fail in another school.
Early this year, an African American undergraduate suicided--- likely due to the academic pressure too!
Phillip Zukowski ’23, a sophomore studying computer science, was found dead Saturday near Ezra’s Tunnel in the Ithaca Falls Natural Area, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi wrote in a Sunday afternoon statement. The cause of his death is currently unknown.
Zukowski was a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he was interested in computer science. He transferred to Cornell from Grinnell College in the fall 2020 semester, and had joined the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and lived in Becker House. He was 19.
As a high school student in Jamaica, Queens, he learned Python through the Google Ignite computer science program at Columbia University, according to Lombardi.
The Ithaca Fire Department, the Tompkins County Medical Examiner’s Office, Bangs Ambulance and Cornell University Police also responded to the scene. IPD is continuing to investigate the incident, but currently does not suspect the death to be the result of a criminal act.
Leaderboard 2 Anyone who may have been in the area of North Willard Way and Ezra’s Tunnel between the hours of 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 8 is asked to contact the Ithaca Police Department at 607-330-0000 or by using the anonymous tip form at www.cityofithaca.org/ipdtips.This is the fifth unexpected student death in the past school year. First-year computer science student Shawn West ’24 was found unresponsive in a dorm room after a day of search in early April. Health care policy student Matthew Crovella ’23 died unexpectedly of a medical episode in late January. At the end of the fall semester, chemistry and chemical biology Ph.D. student Wai Hang (Will) Lee died unexpectedly; in December, environment and sustainability student KAR Robison ’22 died unexpectedly.
Support meetings are being scheduled for the Cornell community, as well as organizations that Zukowski was most closely engaged with, Lombardi said.
不知道现在的孩子都怎么了
一个失去了儿子的母亲节。太惨了。
搞不懂今年这么多
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2010/03/16/6-suicides-in-6-months-at-cornell
从那以后校友捐钱在很多桥下都有建网，已经好很多了。
可孩子又跑出去了。唉。
不知道怎么走到这一步的
我问过孩子，有关depresure，有关大学生自杀的事，我一直自认为自己是羊妈，但孩子提过每年找intern时来自同学间的peer pressure是无形的，对于一个刚刚18，9岁的人，经常会有挫败感，他们有chatroom，每个拿了大package的人都会在那报喜，跟子女坛一样，他现在回头一看根本不算什么，但在人生的某一刻就会觉得那是天大的事，往往死的念头就发生在一迅间。
一时的得失其实真的是无关紧要。
可能不至于
在康学CS的确压力太大对有些学生。
学校的桥都有网子兜着。
不想活了，怎么都挡不住。
是因为课业最重吗？还是实习压力？要决定专业的压力？
大学里压力最大和最迷惘的一年。第一年通常是新鲜和轻松的一年。二年级步入正轨，熬过第二年，多少掌握了些学习技巧和方法。
康的平均不是最高。现在好不少
A+, A, A-; B+, B, B-; C+, C, C-;---The purpose is just to screen and to rank students--- indeed lots of pressure on students.
Many other top schools, grades are only A and B.
a small College to a very demanding university in this case-- the depth and challenging of classes from two kinds of schools are so huge that the students could not adapt to the new environment at all-- for instance, one might get straight As in a school, but may badly fail in another school.
Early this year, an African American undergraduate suicided--- likely due to the academic pressure too!
But that is very true--- in the academic field, people know this
check of $38,000; twice a year!
mostly result from academic pressure there.