Only the biggest news filters down to Joe Student. Everything seems to be born and raised from the inside. We tend to have closed ourselves off from the rest of the cruel world and built this land from scratch in our own graven image. It's a tough world out there. If you sign the right papers and have the proper monetary backing, your rent is paid for months on end and plenty of food is just a short walk away.
Campus living, thy name be convenience.
But in our hearts we long for structure, just enough to make us get out of bed on occasion. We take in great slabs of training at spaced intervals throughout the day, slowing building up our academic rap sheet for our future employers. A four-year sentence that can shift around, depending what breaks you get. There is enough chaos to let things slip here and there, hopefully at critical points on the road. You figure out when you have to show up for class and how much you can get away with.