Sure, and the formation of interlinked sub-networks is an artifact of the overall size - the goal isn&#x27;t that you&#x27;ll be BFFs with everyone on campus, but that you&#x27;ll be able to find enough socially &amp; professionally compatible classmates that you can effectively collude, but and not so many that the value of the collusion is spread out over unacceptably many people, or that it becomes impossible to actually find that guy you heard of whose uncle is a BFD at the Malaysian fed or whatever.