That last one has stuck with me: one of the character traits I find most unsettling in politics is when a person has no conception of their privileged place in society. First of all, everyone reading this is, to a degree, hyper-privileged. We are Americans. We consume a quarter of the world's resources as 4 percent of its population. We are taught from birth that unbridled consumerism and materialism is our right, and politicians of both parties reiterate this in subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways. Yet the degree to which this certain type of Miami student would spout off about the laziness of people who were not at Miami University and people's freedom to choose the life they wished to live and the freedom at the core of the American experience without any understanding that their places in that classroom were premised 99% on who they were born to and under what economic circumstances never failed to make me want to rip off my own head and vomit into the bucket of my skull.