🧑‍🎓 My Graduate-Student SOS: A Race Against Time (and Fever)-As a final-year graduate student, I was managing tons—teaching two chaotic undergrad lab sections, prepping a key conference talk for May 4, AND juggling the final revision of a co-authored paper due to submission. Stress had become my default state, but things were still manageable—until April 25, when I woke up drenched in sweat and swimming in a fever above 39 °C. My body ached, the headache was pounding, and my throat—what felt like razor blades.
It was late April 2025, in the middle of the hectic end-of-term grind at a top-tier university. As a final-year graduate student, I was managing tons—teaching two chaotic undergrad lab sections, prepping a key conference talk
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