College

I actually despise this year at college and it's only been two months since it started. I'm not saying that because I'm the stereotypical teenager that doesn't care about the future and just wants to party all the time (although that would be awesome!), in fact it's not the classes or the institute at all, it's the people. This is my third year studying at Inverness College and it's never been like this before. In my first year it was such a tight-knit group and we were all really good friends, my second year was quite cliquey but everyone still had time for one another, then there's this year and I don't even have words for it. A few weeks into the course someone in the class had set up a Facebook page under a false name and started sending everyone else in the class abusive messages whilst leaving very distinct clues about who it was. They were so personal and offensive that one of the girls dropped out of the course over it because after threatening messages she genuinely did not feel safe on campus. I thought that was as far as it was going to go but on top of all the bitching, arguments and more bitching, there's now theft! Yeah, theft. One of my classmates, a 'friend', stole my phone and my homework diary yesterday. I couldn't believe it. The diary isn't particularly important because everything that was written in it I can find out again from my lecturers, but my phone is the only way I have to communicate with people the majority of the time! I'm hardly ever home to use the internet here and I speak to people mostly by text... so until I can afford a new one I'm effectively out of contact to everyone I know. Who would do that, and more importantly why? What drives people to steal from their friends?
Whoever you are, I hope you're riddled with guilt, I know I would be.