Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every summer we each go through the frenetic summer internship process in which the job search becomes a major source of stress and delight. For some it is the corporate route with dreams of Goldman Sachs and Merril Lynch while others pursue publishing or broadcast journalism. We apply to the Newsweeks, the Times and the Vogues intent on getting just one article published...
...when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...
Most Harvard students are pros at handling stress. However, thanks to randomization, each spring a first-year rite of passage often becomes one of the most stressful experience of students' lives, one that cannot be overcome by good organization or even a few all-nighters...
...stress of the situation is compounded by the feeling, whether myth or reality, that a blocking group is the scene of each student's ultimate social status. For some, the ideal situation is easy to come...
...head against a wall. They do not express the feeling of suffocation from being pinned down by someone 100 pounds heavier than me. The word does not begin to describe the month of pain and bleeding, the days of constant nausea and vomiting, the flashbacks and nightmares or the stress, anger, hurt and fear...