Jimmy Johns 2025-11-13T11:41:50Z
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Rain lashed against the Arriva bus window as I stared at the blur of unfamiliar brick buildings, my stomach churning with that first-day terror only freshers understand. My crumpled paper map had dissolved into pulp within minutes of stepping onto Mount Pleasant campus. I was drowning in a sea of confident-looking students striding purposefully toward lecture halls I couldn't find if you held a gun to my head. That's when my trembling fingers rediscovered CampusConnect - downloaded months ago du -
Rain lashed against my Brooklyn apartment windows last Tuesday evening, the kind of relentless downpour that turns sidewalks into rivers. I'd just endured another soul-crushing video conference where my colleagues debated streaming algorithms like sacred texts. Disgusted, I swiped away endless identical thumbnails of American reality shows on my tablet - each neon-lit face blurring into a digital purgatory of sameness. My thumb hovered over the delete button for three subscription services when -
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