<p>A Wellesley student apparently stabbed, multiple times, an MIT student as he slept in his dorm; was given the key to his room by the night watchman.</p>
<p>Scary, how a person can just "lose it" like that.</p>
<p>Especially a Wellesley girl...they always seem so put together.</p>
<p>I sent this article to my brother who is an MIT alumnus. He said his fraternity always warned the members away from Wellesley girls due to "issues".</p>
<p>My heart goes out to both families, especially the young woman's. The young man will be scarred but will recover, MIT will change a policy but this young woman will always be remembered as the one who lost control in a big way. Most of all she will remember it.
Irrelevent comment - Was anyone else struck by the irony that the Wellesley spokesperson had the same last name as the woman who stabbed Marat to death?</p>
<p>^ Your heart goes out "especially to the young woman's"!? The man is in serious condition and it is unknown to what extent he will recover, he will be physically scarred for life and undoubtedly will be scarred emotionally as well. He was stabbed while sleeping - imagine how traumatic that must be. "Most of all she will remember it". Do you think he will forget it!?</p>
<p>I agree. Sympathy for the felonious assailant who viciously stabbed the young man is extraordinarily misplaced. Would your view be the same if this same crime were committed by a gang member off the street? If not, then I suggest you search your heart as to why you are so quick to defend this criminal and speak of the MIT student's physical scars as healing but the Wellesley student's psychic distress (presuming she has any and is not simply a cold blooded assailant who devised a plan for her criminal action and then duped individuals so she could consummate it) as somehow more deserving of sympathy.</p>
<p>I always wonder why things like this are so shocking to so many people.</p>
<p>I understand that it's traumatic, and my heart goes out to everyone mourning this student. It truly is tragic. :(</p>
<p>But honestly...do people think colleges are crime-free or something?</p>
<p>HGFM, I think it is the degree of the crime committed that shocks us. Theft may be an everyday occurence, but stabbing somebody with the intent of killing them, is not what anybody would expect to happen on a daily basis.</p>
<p>That's very true. I hadn't thought about it that way.</p>
<p>Redcrimblue, I think you misunderstood me. I was in no way defending the young woman's actions. On the contrary, harming another individual is the worst thing you can do in life.<br>
I was projecting my own feelings onto the two individuals. In my life I have suffered more from hurtful things I have said to other individuals than from things said or done to me. Admittedly in the short term it was the other way around, but over the long period of years I wake up more at night thinking about my own words or deeds. I can't imagine coming around after a bout of psychotherapy and psychoparmacy to the reality that I had stabbed another person multple times.
No, I'm not so sympathetic with gang bangers. They don't seem to suffer from guilt. This young woman, I'm imagining, is an otherwise well-intentioned individual, who will carry this the rest of her life.
The young man who was stabbed will have psychological scars as well as physical. He will need therapy, but he can get away over the years from the agent that harmed him. She never can. This was of her own doing.</p>