I am student of the San Diego Mesa Community College and a terrible event happened this past monday. Some girl apparently not dealing with the stress of finals week well went to the 4th floor of the library, made a phone call and without any hesitation jumped from the 4th floor and came literally crashing to the bottom floor in front of tons of students and staff. The library is generally crowded all day long. This girl hit the ground so hard that piece of skull broke and brain residue was flung around. I was in the library at that time and thank God I was not there for the visual sight but the sound of her hitting that concrete was comparable to a bomb or shotgun going off. To make matters worst she lived for 15mins after the event. Creep as fuck.

lots screaming, lots of crying, lots of people just standing in place in a weird daze. So we were evaluated quickly and at this point I still had not figured out what happened. I eventually figured it out from a classmate in my art class as she was one of the unfortunate people to see it and its where I found about the messy details. Apparently lots of students drop due to mental stress of seeing that and Mesa even has a counseling center open just for it.Anyway there is a complete media block on the even " to not encourage others to follow", which is understandable, though some people say it may just be Mesa trying to protect their image as a murder happened a City College( part of unified college district with mesa and miramar) a few years ago and the reputation for that school was hurt by it as its the least favorable. They did such a quick clean up job that there are students and staff still finding out today. Seriously, its like it never happened. If someone told me I dreamed this event at this point I may believe them but what really bugs me about this is this girl jumped to supposedly send a message to about how stressful finals week is for full time students and budget cuts and and intuition raises and class cuts and all that... is now sweeped under the rug. Im not saying suicide was the answer because I dont believe in suicide for anything and Im not saying that she was justified in reason because she wasnt, but at least dont let her die in vain if her death really was to send a message. I checked the Mesa web news..nothing detailing the event of anything.

What do you expect to happen? Were you thinking there would be rallies to increase the safety of the school (i.e. thicker glass) or what?

Weird though.. I live here in SD and I didn't hear about this on the radio at all (I don't watch the news). I guess there doesn't really seem to be a reason to blow this up into huge news, though. What will come of it?

Holy crap, seriously wow. Not sure what I would do if I saw it happen honestly.

horrifying and sad news, best wishes go out to the family and friends. Would be very traumatizing to witness such an event.

i wish more people suffering from poor mental health such as depression or anxietys/stress to see a counsler or some kind of proffiesonal help. It's always good to get these mental issues resolved and in place.

Im not saying a huge movement should happen. It just seems the school is covering it up and pretending that it didnt happen as oppose to acknowledging it happened and taking time to adress it

That's pretty screwed up man :/ Kind of wished I hadn't read it to be honest. Now I'm going to have that in my mind all day.

As sad as it is, what reaction did you expect during a finals week? This will sound really harsh now, but I don't think many students during finals week will have any free time to care about a suicide enough to do anything to change something. Also, we all are pretty desensitized. In Germany many people suicide by jumping in front of a train. Do you know what the general reaction is?

"Couldn't have this jerk killed himself without dragging us into it? Now we'll be X hours late..."

You don't know her, but you're obviously very distraught over this so you have my condolences.

The school may post the news later and plan a moment of silence after finals.

Same, but we shouldn't have expect anything else with a thread title about suicide.

I cannot shake the sound of that body hitting the concrete. It just creeps the fuck out of me. Every time I take the elevator to the fourth floor I always look over the railing..not yesterday.