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Article: Student at MIT Suffering from Schizophrenia Returns to Academic Life.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 31, 2003
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By Ellen Barry, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 31--CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--As Joe Wleklinski prepared last week for another semester in the pressure cooker of MIT's mechanical engineering department, he faced the kinds of problems one would predict for an elite graduate student: fusion in a tokamak reactor or the dilemmas of rarefied gas dynamics.
For Wleklinski, the broad-shouldered, blue-eyed son of a Chicago salesman, there were also some other problems. He knew that under stress, he could begin to imagine professors glaring at him from their lecture podiums, or undergraduates eyeing him with arrogant, hostile looks.
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