Because these are the last three years before the real world...
The Last 3 Years is a game set in a contemporary Massachusetts town at a fictional year-round boarding school, Hiatt-Wellerstein Academy for the Arts. Players can take premades based off of musical theatre characters and create original art students in music, writing, visual arts like painting and sculpting, media arts/film, theatre, and dance...students who have dreams and talent and jealousies, rivalries, risks and reward...and only three years to get ready for what comes next.