He had uninstalled Microsoft Office weeks ago to make space for a game he never finished. Now, reinstalling it meant a 3GB download. On hostel Wi-Fi, that would take two days.

His antivirus didn’t scream. But it didn’t breathe either.

The next morning, the college IT admin found Rohan in the lab, frantically typing into a text file—by hand, from memory—the first ten pages of his report.

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