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I'm sure by now most of you would have heard of the tragic case of a NTU EEE student who stabbed his FYP professor and then committed suicide.

I was amazed at how fast news spreads, especially through word of mouth (not so much through Facebook though).  The incident happened this morning around 10+, but by 12+, SMSes were being exchanged, and students were already talking about it.  It is amazing because the campus is quite big, even if something newsworthy happens at one place, the rest of us in other parts of the campus won't know about it until it is officially communicated through email or reported in the media.

Some interesting banter that came up included School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering needing to create news for themselves for they were not to be outdone by Nanyang Business School making the top 24 list of MBA programmes in the world.  There was also some talk about nationalities and their stereotypes, but we shan't go there.

As this is the time where we're all rushing to complete our Final Year Project / Applied Research Project reports, some of us are under a tremendous amount of stress to meet the deadline next week.  However, different people have different threshold levels, and choose to deal with it differently.  Unfortunately for everyone, this particular student chose to cope through violence.

I believe that all problems can be solved, you just need to find the right people and the right time.  If you've been feeling under the weather, it may be time to seek help.  And help is available.

News articles:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/412478/1/.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_344879.html