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The blue glare of my laptop screen cut through the darkness like a surgical knife, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Outside, campus was silent—dead silent—except for the frantic clatter of my keyboard and the jagged rhythm of my own panicked breathing. Tomorrow’s deadline loomed like a guillotine, and I was drowning. Lecture slides? Scattered across three cloud drives. Research PDFs? Buried in email attachments from professors who still thought "Reply All" was a suggestion. My notes?

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The Rain-Slicked Panic

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