[quote=OutlawTorn]
Perhaps we're not students at all, but a large, diverse group of people from all walks of life who have all ended up somewhere together, for different reasons. Perhaps this place is not as it seems to be. Throw some mystery in the mix. Who are all of these people? Where did they come from? Why are they here? Are they really who they say they are?I'd be intensely interested in something like that.
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Being stranded on an island is the simplest thing that comes to my mind. However, even that can have a twist put on it. Maybe its not an island theyre stranded on, but theyre trapped elsewhere. Maybe theyre holed up in a giant mall because of the obvious zombie apocalypse. Maybe theyre stuck in a weird castle having been magically transported there. Idk, these things function in a very similar way but can be vastly different. 

That being said, some people just want to live it up in a dorm and dont want more than that.