But for others, what gives rise to an unshakeable feeling of being assigned the wrong gender?
He blamed Holmes' troubles on the unluckiness of being assigned to a unit with Morlock.
Ms. Sachs, 71, had respiratory problems and the misfortune of being assigned a room on Leben's third floor, its highest and hottest.
The nature of being assigned an area, not a player, makes it easier for an offensive player to slip in a gap for a rebound.
When he visited the Mets' locker room in January, he spoke hopefully of being assigned the No. 16 jersey worn by his childhood friend Dwight Gooden.
But Hopps has dreams, and recovers quickly from the bummer of being assigned to parking-ticket duties by the chief of police (Idris Elba), a Cape buffalo.
Fortunately, I'm old enough to have escaped the junior-high experience of being assigned "We Didn't Start the Fire" in history class.
One student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tells of being assigned, because of a family connection, to a freshman adviser whose son had Asperger's.
The principal said 300 of the school's 523 students had received letters warning that they were at risk of being assigned to summer school.
That policy was said to have inhibited many qualified teachers from even applying for fear of being assigned to neighborhoods they considered dangerous or classes where students would be hard to teach.
But with the Army stretched today by long-term deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a growing percentage of new soldiers are in combat zones within 30 days of being assigned to a unit, Army officials say.
