I found a cheap chain while digging for my student ID. In my first-year photos it sat right at the base of my throat; today the clasp lands about an inch lower and the little pendant rests in the hollow above my collarbone. Not a dramatic transformation, just a quiet hardware update. I’m about five months in, eating mostly dorm food, and my budget-protein rotation is still tuna packets, eggs from the dining hall, lentils I cook in a mug, and cottage cheese when the campus store marks it down. My scale has been boring lately, but this necklace was a weirdly clear check-in. Also, my neck apparently had a spare inch it wasn’t using. Anyone else notice a random object fitting differently before the mirror caught up?