Word: numb
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...outside the classrooms, desperately look and hope to see their loved ones come out. "I used to cry every time I saw a helicopter," says Lamada Isehmasan, who has been waiting for his parents and brother to be ferried in for the past five days, "but now I'm numb." He learned the day before that they are safe, but still stuck...
...course, the reality turns out to be a little different, and it’s nice to be reminded of our former naivete. But perhaps these prefrosh are on to something. Whatever happened to that sense of hope and possibility that we once had? Have we grown numb or is college really not all that we had anticipated? Have we learned anything since we’ve been here? Where has that sense of ambition and confidence gone? And then, just when you’re about to doubt our entire college experience, you hear a prefrosh puking...
...been crying for 2 hours. I will never get over it. —hookem168 The fact that this process—these twelve years—not just the applications—is over feels... strange. That it should end with so many rejections is...I feel numb —jiess Real talk: About 20% of the acceptances are mistakes. This can be corroborated with qualitative evidence. —shalashaska64 “A record 10.9 percent of admitted students are from Latino backgrounds” For some weird reason, it made me feel much better...
...week before his suicide, Andersson was ordered to write three separate essays explaining his failure to line up prospective recruits. A fellow recruiter later told Army investigators that commanders "humiliated" this decorated battlefield soldier during a training session: "He was under a constant grind - incredible pressure. He just became numb." (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...heads turning round to scowl and simmer. The rustling of these early birds soon joined up with the clamoring hiss behind us—a legion of cicadas, banging away on their timbals as they crept at our heels.It’s a good thing I was getting numb. Because the din finally got so bad that Reverend Lewis stopped talking. It was just for a second, but he looked right at me, all the way from up on high. I was finally ready to faint. But Ezekiel kept going as the reverend looked back up and said...