My first year of college was almost unrelentingly miserable. I was painfully shy and felt myself to be invisible. I spent a lot of time hiding in my dorm room, which did nothing to alleviate my loneliness; it only spared me the pain of drifting ghostlike about campus without being seen or acknowledged. Of course, it probably didn’t help that, when I did…
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