 On September 28, the Student Group Active Minds held an event called Send Silence Packing to raise awareness about student suicides. The statistic is that a thousand students commit suicide every year on college campuses, so we have a thousand backpacks right now. About a fifth of them were actually donated by families of victims and have personal stories attached to them, which is really powerful. Yesterday I received an email from my high school principal. There was a student in the student body of the senior class passed by suicide. Even though I may have crossed paths with this kid, I didn't know him that well, but I'm feeling like different. According to 2012 National Alliance Omental Aonus Survey, 40 percent of college students with mental health issues did not ask for help. I think students feel ashamed, particularly in today's world of not being good at everything, you know, and if I have this internal distress that's going on, people feel ashamed of that. You know that it does happen, but you never really hear about it often other than like that one time that a kid does commit suicide and then you hear about it all over the campus. Boston University offers students several kinds of a mental health counseling, but the sound fail, that is not enough. There's the stigma like I live in a dorm by myself in a single. There needs to be discussions between roommates, between floor people, between like classes. I feel like this needs to be talked about more. I've known a couple of people who made very serious suicide attempts, and then when they survived said they were very, very glad they had survived. But suicide remains the second leading cause of a death for people aged 15 to 34. I'm Xaxue from BU News Service, Boston.