My college years were really interesting. For much of my first year, I was a compete arse - just didn't deal all that well with moving away from home. My second year started in a shared house, but I moved back into Halls part way through they year. The bloke in the room next door was a fabulous artist called Keiran. He and spent loads of evenings fixing the world, none moreso than during the week we were snowed in (the snow then melted in a day and flooded the whole town, doing incredible damage). For that week, Keiran and I spent most of our time talking about big stuff - science, faith, doubt, politics, art, all in the way that only 20 years olds who want to change the world can - listening to music and occasionally making a foray out to the canteen where we were still being served food... (were the dinner staff snowed in too? How did they get there? Never did find that out...)
Anyway, it was an amazing week, despite the snow. It was the first time I heard Consolidated, and we listened to Roger Water's Amused To Death a lot too. But the album that really sums it up for me is Dusk by The The - I've previously blogged about this as one of the albums that changed my life. Indeed it did, and it also soundtracked our snow-week perfectly.