I still can’t believe how quickly everything changed, how one night could leave such a permanent scar. This year was supposed to be a dream. All my school friends got into their top choices – IITs, DU, you name it. Me? I got waitlisted from my dream college, the one where everyone I knew was going. So, here I am, stuck in a city I barely know, at a university where I’m just another face in a sea of strangers. The loneliness hit me like a physical blow. Every evening, I’d scroll through my friends’ Instagram stories, seeing them laugh, make new memories, and I’d just feel this immense ache of isolation.
My First College Party Nightmare: A Confession of Shattered Innocence
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