[Espy]

In case you haven't noticed, I've been in a slump the past few days. The past two weeks have been Hell Weeks for me. During the first, all the little things went wrong. During the second, everything piled up and happened to be due on the same day. To make things worse, I had writer's block, and a Mech E project and a separate paper due today (did not finish the latter; will turn that in for late credit).

I had thought the worse was over, come Friday. That night, I decided to grab a friend and do a few risky, not-faculty-approve, adrenaline-rush sort of things.

I learned at 6pm on Saturday that a sophomore in the CS department had died after falling out of the window in his apartment.

Henry was an active member of KGB (a social org that I'm also in --it's very tight-knit and is halfway between a club and a fraternity-of-sorts). A lot of KGB members are CS, so many of my friends were close to him. I was not, and I regret not having gotten to known him better.

During the past couple of days, I have not been able to fully pull myself out of a rather depressed state of mind, and on top of that, I'm very close to just breaking down both mentally and emotionally from the previous two weeks. The fact that I was not granted a extension for my paper on account of this tragedy did not help any.

But this is not about me. This is about several of my close friends, who I ran into today during the KGB meeting. They seem to be much worse off than me, both emotionally and mentally. I'm not the best, socially, so I desperately need advice on how help them move on.

TL;DR: How should I console my friends over the death of a mutual acquaintance , especially during finals week?