I've recently did something that made my friend go "why the fuck would you even need that?"
I've recently discovered that I can't neither VPN into my VPS nor my home network from my college. Both OpenVPN and wireguard were not working. So, to fix that, I'm running a shadowsocks proxy, which is behind an nginx reverse proxy, through which I connect to my services.
Now, I haven't tested it with my college network yet, but based on other similar reddit posts I've read, it should theoretically work.
The OpenVPN server did run on a non-standard port, and it still got blocked.