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Tuned in to the many ongoing debates on campus, I have been dumbstruck by a spate of opinions that smack of the one thing that each of us probably swore we would never exhibit: old-school snobbery. That’s right, snobbery: the unwarranted and self-congratulatory intellectual snobbery that tries to castigate an entire segment of the student body—athletes, for example—as unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This...
...that not only is one man personally responsible for an act of nature but also that, somehow, he alone could have made everything work out for the best. Although these authors have all made the obligatory concession of “stuff happens,” I have been dumbstruck at the opinion that President Bush could, by his own actions, have made one of the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the Atlantic ocean a painless non-event...
...dumbstruck. Dating was the furthest thing from my mind. "To tell you the truth, I can't even think about dating right now. I can hardly even speak. I think I'm having an emotional breakdown. Why don't you call me back in three months...
While most of the Harvard fans resumed their celebration, which had been temporarily postponed by the Wallace three, an eerie feeling swept over the building. It was one which was best embodied by the dumbstruck look on the faces of the Princeton faithful who had made the trip north for the road trip...
Sometimes, when I emerge from my rabbit hole in Adams House—my window faces a brick wall approximately one foot away— I am dumbstruck by the splendor around me, the silence of my small room smashed by the tones of this tramway-streamlined world. Harvard Square is a great place to gather in these last moments of summer. The rhythm is as varied as our course catalog, a synergy of locals and intellectuals at thriving hotspots like Noch’s and the Garage. It is a place of high entropy, where disorder increases...