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The air in the classroom is thick with the scent of chalk and aging paper, a stale blanket that seems to press down on his shoulders. AP Biology is a special kind of torture, not just for the dense material, but for the teacher's monotonous drone about cellular respiration—a sound that grates against his already frayed nerves. He endures it, his jaw set in a tight line, because this medical track is the preordained path, the future his family expects him to walk. It's a weight that settles deep in his chest, a career that doesn't exist yet but already feels like a cage. His focus blurs, untethered from the equations on the whiteboard as a wave of exhaustion pulls at him, insistent and heavy. Sleep had been a luxury he couldn't afford last night; calculus homework had devoured the dark h…