Not even the lab is safe
This story about a missing graduate student named Annie Le at Yale is really upsetting me. I think it's because I can relate to this young woman...she's a female grad student, a bit younger than myself, who is in the physical sciences, and who works in several different lab facilities. She went into one of her labs this week, in a building full of students, and never came out. That afternoon, someone pulled a fire alarm in that same building to evacuate everyone. Now there is a report that a body has been found in one of the lab walls. I'm just speechless...the story forming in my head is something terribly cruel and horrific. And--this could be any of us geology students. We go into a busy lab building every day, expecting to be safe in our place of work because it's bustling with people. And yet anyone--ANYONE--can walk into our building during the day. No one has yet positively identified the remains as Ms. Le, but I don't think this story is going to have a happy ending. I feel so sick and sad and scared. She was supposed to have gotten married today.