Well, keep in mind that it’s just an interesting student art project and social experiment.
On Facebook and Twitter I imagine that this will be presented as “Librul Edjimicaters pussifyin our kids” but you may as well blame a pig for being muddy as blame someone on those platforms for being misinformed and angry.
The only issue I see with it is it seems to project the idea that expressing your emotions is something shameful that should not be shared. I say let it all out, no matter where, and hopefully with a good emotional support system around.
Oh, on Twitter the conservatives and alt-right shit have already began tearing into it. it’s funny because the proportion of college degrees among them suggests that they don’t really know what finals are like.
(To clarify, it’s only open through the first couple days of May.)
I’m a very private person, if i was going to have an emotional meltdown i would rather do it in private. Otherwise i better be drunk as hell if i’m doing so in public (wouldn’t be the first time).
Yes. Crying is best done with another person/persons listening and confidentiality agreed upon if necessary, and then you trade time. Part of the angst is a feeling of isolation anyway.
Yes, everyone has their choice.
For me, everything was coming to a head during senior year, and I felt a therapist was necessary. Still graduated with high grades, so I was grateful for that.
To be fair, like @Grey_Devil mentioned, sometimes you do just want to cry alone
One is not enough.
Imagine a line of twenty students crying even more because the closet is occupied.
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One student allowed at a time, and only for 10 minutes.
Congrats, Utah. You’ve invented a way for kids to get in trouble for coming out of the closet as Straight.
it’s okay! There’s a 10 minute time limit
On the adjunct end of the scale shared offices are becoming more common.
Da Boo-Hoo Booth.
One could blast away like crazy while crying at the same time… but that would look silly.
I’ve only had a couple of students break down in my office over the years, but I have colleagues (mainly women) who deal with this regularly. Very good students seem to be more susceptible than mediocre ones, I assume because the hard programs of study they undertake are more stressful than easy ones. The cry closet sounds to me like a fine idea.
I wonder if it’s so much as hard programs of study as it is the pressure to do well. I’ve had plenty of (not especially good) students come through my office enrolled in difficult courses of study who quickly failed out of the program. They had those more difficult classes, but didn’t have any sort of breakdown besides a quick drop in their grades (though that was only what I could see.)
Well, that too, though mediocre-to-average students can also feel pressure to do well, especially from parents.
Pretty sure that’s why business school exists 
As a mediocre student, I can honestly say I had this pressure put on me as well.
Thankfully, it was like water off a duck’s back.
I can also happily say I’m out-earning a lot of people with better GPA’s. Take that, overachievers!
ETA: And no, I don’t work in sales. I write code.
