If you don’t study, you’re not asserting your independence, you’re just creating trouble for yourself. People do fail, and when they fail they have to do inconvenient and possibly expensive things like resitting courses. And your college and department do care about you. They would very much like you to succeed. But you’re an adult now and, while they consider it their responsibility to provide high-quality teaching, they don’t consider it their responsibility to make you study. That’s down to you.
