3G can catch wifi in apple store but not anywhere else

So I upgraded my 3G to OS4.0 a few weeks ago and like many others have experienced, my wifi has gone DEAD right after the upgrade. No networks show up whatsoever. I have spent hours going through this forum and google, only to find out that there's no solution for it and some have even resorted to putting the phone in the freezer
I was just about to give up on the problem thinking it's a hardware issue, but today I happen to pass an apple store. I explained my problem to one of the Apple consultants and as soon as he touched it there was the wifi!!! He didn't understand why it didn't work at my dorm (on college campus) and told me to come back and try.
So here I am back at my dorm again with the same old problem - it can't find any wifi. This is getting really frustrating and I do hope I can find a solution for it. The fact that it worked at Apple Store shows that it's not a hardware issue, but what is it!!! It was able to find my campus network before I upgraded it, so I don't think it has anything to do with campus network having a weak signal. Arghhhh I hate apple. If anyone knows how to solve this please please let me know.

So I tried using my macbook pro to share internet to the iphone, and the phone can detect the network! I'm guessing my campus network and several hundred other networks around me are too far to be detected? But how close must you be for it to work!? it's unbelievable that I live right in the city where there are hundreds of wifi detected on my laptop but none on my iphone

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