Steiner makes the claim that there are high rates of depression and suicide in college students. This happens because of multiple reasons, some from trying to balance all these new stress inducing situations a college student may have and others who are just reverting back to one's prior depressed experienced before the start of college. Steiner lists solutions to this problem. She believes if students are well-informed about depression and universities take the initiative to provide funding for counseling services then we'll see lets depressed student and less suicides in colleges throughout the United States.
Steiner supports her claim with statistics, facts, and multiple examples. She finds the statistics of suicides college students committing suicides and by stating 15 out of 100,000 student instills some fear in Americans. It shows to them it isn't just one kid here and there it's a growing entity taking over american students. This is also seen in the examples she uses, she makes a point to emphasize the fact that with some of the suicides the student were categorized as happy and fun kids, so people couldn't understand why they would commit this act.
I agree that college is very stressful for students and if there were more ways to express how they were feeling then there would be less depressed students and fewer suicides. I see the many stresses that students have to go through. Many universities they try to keep a high reputation so they make their curriculum very challenging, as well as the constantly increasing tuition rates it hard to picture a college student who isn't stressed. Some students are able to cope with this stress better than others. If universities acknowledged this problem and tried to teach these students how to deal with stress then maybe there will be less depressed kids in college in the future. If I wrote this essay I would have added information that proved that when colleges stepped in the rates of depressed students actually decreased.
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