Blog Post #3

As previously stated my topic of choice is how mental health and the college experience relate and affect one another. That being said I think privatization has a significant role as it could certainly affect one's mental health negatively. This is evidenced in Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong's several times but most specifically with "As the year progressed, those who were not included became quieter (we were worried that one was becoming clinically depressed)...dominants absorb energy from subordinates, while subordinates become depressed, resigned, and passive"  (Armstrong, Hamilton 105-106). The point of this quote is that the experience of college can negatively or positively affect one's mental health depending on what end of the spectrum they fall, meaning dominant or subordinate. The privatization of college has the potential to pressure students that are already suffering from mental disorders or it has the potential to create disorders. This paper will likely focus on how privatization negatively attributes to students' mental health.