King's College: Unorganised Order

So I've gone to King's College for a few weeks now and started to settle into my routine. However, I'm finding this routine needlessly complicated and confusing. Most of us have heard of "organised chaos" which involves a framework that leads to mayhem, but is meant to function that way, like a busy restaurant. Well the British university system is just the opposite of that: the unorganised system that produces a sense of order which I simply call "unorganised order."
 
Let's start with King's College as a location: it isn't one. Rather the campus consists of buildings few and far between one another. Some buildings are south of the Thames, some are on the Strand. My student accommodation puts me twenty minutes from my nearest class (And people at AU complain of the walk from Leonard Hall to Kreeger). And public transport takes just as long, so people should only use it if they are lazy or the heavens have opened up for the next twenty minutes. As for the buildings themselves well... King's Building has twelve other buildings attached to it and navigating between buildings makes the old McKinley building at American University seems as straightforward as a prison cell block. I guess that’s what happens when a university that educated less than 3,000 students a year adds 30,000 more over 25 years (and that is why the U.K. government had to raise the cap on tuition fees to £9,000 or $14,500).
 
Then we come to the classes themselves. Some classes do have a degree of structure like assigned readings, essays, and short answers. But those are the exceptions that prove the rule. In three of my four modules I have been presented with a list of books to read. One of these lists is twenty pages long and on day one my professor said we would be mad to try and read all of them. The thing is, I have no idea which ones to read and have no means of getting 95 per cent of these books. Maybe people can find some in the library (which is somewhere else in London), but again, that's the exception that proves the rule.
 
So how does this system keep order? Simple: have a strict policy about how to pass a module. In my case as a study abroad student, that involves handing in essays before their deadlines. If I’m late by 10^-9999999999 of a second I get a zero. For regular students the same applies, but the essays normally aren't graded. They need to be done so the students can sit the final exam which will be graded.
 
It's incentives like these that keep order in an otherwise unorganised world. This might prove the closest thing that we get to anarchism: no order, but very serious consequences for those who don't step up. So in this regard, I think I prefer the US academic system.