Now wait, interjected her friend Lizzie McCord, 14. “The school has no windows, so being inside can seem dark and depressing.Īnd some kids do get stressed out from the workload.” “I mean, I can see why it could make sense,” said Caroline Goodman, 14, waving toward the brick, fortresslike school building. Nearby, a group of freshmen outside the school groaned collectively when asked about the “saddest school” study. “Everyone was talking about it - we’re the saddest school,” said Grace Cruz, 17, a senior at Hunter College High School as she walked out of the school recently and onto East 94th Street. The “saddest spot” label, if not the details of the study, has become the buzz of Hunter as the new academic year starts. Was this student body - once described in a 1982 New York magazine article headline as “The Joyful Elite” - really a bunch of misanthropes unpacking their miserable hearts, 140 characters They came, researchers reported, from Hunter. The highest volume of what the study labeled “negative sentiment tweets” in Manhattan came not from a subway platform, emergency room, soup kitchen line or even a crowded branch of the Department of Motor So it came as a surprise to students and others when the school was labeled the saddest spot in Manhattan, based on a recent study aimed at gauging the emotions of New Yorkers by their Twitter messages. Surpasses what is offered at many of the elite private high schools in New York City. #HUNTER PUBLIC LIBRARY HUNTER NEW YORK TWITTER FREE#It feeds Ivy League colleges and provides a free education that supporters believe Hunter College High School is a highly rated school whose coveted spots are filled with many of the city’s top performing students. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times Is this the saddest place in Manhattan? A study of Twitter posts asserts that Hunter College High School is indeed the most negative spot.
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