Due to stressful deadline and working around fabricated data and result, Huxiang Chen decided to suicide. š Quote: āConsidering that this will have an impact on my career in the future and my reputation in the area of Computer Architecture, my future life will be worse than death and I will be totally in a dilemma. I considered all the cases, I really canāt work them around. In order to make up for the fault, I decide to suicide. I hope you can learn my lessons and donāt mess around things. We shall never claim too much in the paper before we can really achieve it. I hope this will make a change in this world.ā https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/the-hidden-story-behind-the-suicide-phd-candidate-huixiang-chen-236cd39f79d3
People with MS live longer than those w/ lower education level. ā HealthIQ Anyone know any such stats about PhDs?
Sad story but I'll never understand how people commit suicide over something so trivial as a PhD. It's nothing in the grand scale.of things. Lack.of religion, I think.
The worst part is UF covered it up for 15 days until a group of insiders decided to speak up. Now they are threaten to be sued by his advisor. š¤Æ https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/help-dr-tao-li-is-threatening-insiders-on-behalf-of-university-of-florida-3fa1cb16de68
Pathetic. I hope the advisor/ professor gets severely penalized. No one should exert this much control over anyone (& get away with it, to boot).
The news is pervasive now. The professor's name is tarnished. The dumb part is that the professor sent a cease and desist email to people, which just makes him look even more guilty. I highly doubt the research community will trust him ever again. I wonder if the conference punisher will retract that paper.
PhD = Permanent Head Damage
Not so easy for an immigrant though. He seems to care a lot about genuine research.
I'm an immigrant from India š
"Forced"
I cringed when I read that too. Nothing at all makes this "forced".
I could imagine how this PhD student felt while making this deadly decision. It may be hard for you to imagine if you have not been in their shoes. Working as a Grad student is brutal
I know a guy who got fired from 9 to 5 job. He tried hard but didnt make through. He lose all hope as he was neither good at studies nor to anything he can think of. He likes to play pc games and saw a professional guy streaming in youtube and earning money. He realized he is not good at pc games as wll. So he gave a shot and started streaming in youtube, but he used to make watchers laugh with his humorous jokes or gestures. Todsy he is earning in lacs(100,000) and feels glad he quit his 9 to 5 earning pennies
The problem with doing what we love is it doesn't guarantee comfort, or even a paycheck.
If you are not depressed or never contemplated suicide, you will never understand why people commit suicide. So please donāt act surprised or confused why people commit suicide. You are lucky you never got these or were able to reason your way out of it. Some people are not able to reason their way out and it has less to do with their intelligence and more to do with the chemical imbalance in their brains caused by long term issues.
All too common. Knew of a lab in Harvard (Corey lab) where 4 people committed suicide over a span of 10 years. Even if they don't commit suicide, a PhD will convert you to a mental wreck.
99/100 PhD not worth it
Think there was another similar case just ~4 years back, at USC. The only difference? The student shot his professor before killing himself. Tragic.