Arjun was a third-year computer science student with a bank balance that had a permanent negative sign in front of it. His laptop, a hand-me-down from his older sister, wheezed when it ran more than three browser tabs. But he had one point of pride: he had just installed MS Office 2019. The fresh icons—Word, Excel, PowerPoint—sat on his taskbar like gleaming trophies. For exactly four days, he felt like a professional.