An Interview with the Guy Who Sleeps in a Different Place on Campus Every Night
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Meanwhile, there really are homeless students in the US.
"In 2009, 47,204 college students applying for financial aid checked a box that identified themselves as homeless." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/homeless-college-st...
"I have had homeless students before. In fact, when the recession began to rear its ugly head the number of students in our high school who lived in shelters grew and grew and grew... Whenever I found out that a student was homeless, the puzzle pieces suddenly fit together -- the fatigue, the sudden weight loss, the increasingly dirtiness of their clothing or unkempt elements of their personal self. "Oh..." I would think, "That's what's going on."" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-ungemah/homeless-in-colle...
Of course, there are also homeless people who aren't even students trying to live on campus too.
"The library at Cambridge University's largest college has been playing host to a mysterious user with a collection of supermarket bags, vague claims of doing a doctorate on religion and a habit of dozing off. The unexpected visitor was the subject of speculation at St John's College over several weeks, according to students, before he was asked to leave by staff after failing to show that he was entitled to use the library or the college's other ancient premises." http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/27/homeless-man...
There is one thing that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
There’s this parental lifeline that fulfills all of our physical needs
Sleeping around on a college campus still makes use of things the campus provides. Everything is still provided to him, a bed and shower are the easiest campus amenities to find elsewhere. In college, the campus was my home, the dorm was lockable storage with a bed. His lifestyle is just a slightly more adventitious version of one I saw dozens fo times: entering your dormroom 2 times a semester because you're really living in your girlfrined's dormroom.
Edit: to anyone who downvotes without explanation: you are a coward.
While it's certainly possible that Riel is just a little quirky and enjoys a different type of routine, unfortunately the pattern of behavior described here is often seen during the first presentation of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is more common in males and classically presents in the early-to-mid 20's. It would not, early in its course, necessarily be accompanied by seriously impaired academic functioning. I would urge Riel's friends and classmates to be vigilant for signs of disorganized or paranoid thought, speech, and behavior.