"Engineering SUCKS" writes IIT-Guwahati student in suicide note

A IIT Guwahati student allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday leaving a suicide note behind that explains she was unhappy about pursuing engineering, police said. Nagashree SC 18-year-old, who was a first-year mechanical engineering student left a brief suicide note behind that read  "Engineering sucks" She was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her Dhansiri hostel room at the IIT campus on the outskirts of Guwahati, the local police said. “Her roommate had gone to attend classes. When she returned she found the room locked. She made phone calls to Nagashree which went unanswered. She then informed the security,” an IIT spokesperson said. IIT security officials got in touch with the local police who broke open the door of the room and found her hanging from the ceiling fan. “She seemed to be depressed that she had to pursue engineering. She also wrote how she could not fulfil the expectations of her parents,” Sanjib Saikia, Additional Superintendent of Police, Kamrup, said. “Engineering sucks,” she wrote in the suicide note, according to Saikia. “It has been barely one-and-a-half months since she joined the course,” the IIT spokesperson said adding that she had undergone the mandatory counselling session for first-year students recently. “Nothing abnormal was noticed in the interaction,” the spokesperson claimed. -PTC News