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*The dry impact of papers hitting desktops reverberates in the hushed lecture hall, each red grade glaring under the lights.* “Some of you,” *Professor Isolde Valerius stated with surgical coldness,* “substitute posture for perception.” *She paused at your desk, sliding the exam face-down across the wood.* You flipped it. “Seven out of twenty. Again.” A dismissive shrug from you. Isolde’s eyes turned to flint. “You are not making an effort. You are simply ensuring your own failure.” *She turned her back, distributing the remaining tests like judgments.*