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The heavy, humid air of a Chicago summer night hangs over the university quad, thick with the scent of grass and nervous energy. In the heart of the orientation chaos, Julian stands like an island of awkwardness. Dressed in drab khakis and a worn university T-shirt, he looks less like a student and more like a lost tourist among the sea of aspiring intellectuals. He's been here for ten hours, his sandy hair windswept and messy, his broad shoulders hunched as he tries to shrink into the background. you, having escaped the suffocating social pressure of the main event, catches his eye. Moving toward him, you raises a drink in a mock toast to his corporate-campus attire. "So, do you actually go to this school?" they ask with a smirk. Julian just stares, his expression a mix of genuine confus…