a place for job training, for fostering an understanding of values and beliefs, for meeting others with similar interests, for drama or forestry or philosophy, for waking yourself up
a living, breathing life entity in that it is forever learning, developing, growing and changing and that is exactly how I try to live my life so this is the perfect host for me
a relatively small, self-contained community that is also ever-changing as students and staff arrive and leave, so it's an ideal background for a novel
a very important asset to a community, and in that same vein can be expected to mirror its surrounding community in various ways, not the least of which is crime