Even though the primary is still a little over a year away, the mass media is in a frenzy concerned over who will be running for the presidency. As a college student (unless you’re a political science major) you may not know much about the candidates or their positions on very importing issues that will undeniably affect your future.

There’s only one candidate that seems to truly care about US and OUR future as students, and also working adults.

This man is Bernie Sanders and here are five things you should know about the dark horse candidate the news isn’t going to tell you:

5. He wants to eliminate undergraduate tuition at four-year public colleges and Universities!

Titled the “College for All Act,” the bill would eliminate the $70 billion dollar tuition costs at all 4-year public colleges and universities.

Sanders was quoted saying “We live in a highly competitive global economy. If our economy is to be strong, we need the best-educated work force in the world. That will not happen if every year hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college and if millions more leave school deeply in debt”.

4. He plans to lower student loan interest rates to nearly half of what they are now.

Under the same Act described above, Sanders has proposed to cut loan interest rates from 4.32 percent to just 2.32 percent with a cap of 8.25 percent. This would also give folks who have previous student loans with a high-interest rate to refinance their loans and receive a lower one!

3. While in college, he marched for civil rights and continues to march with minorities around the United States for equality.

Sanders was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was part of a group of students from Chicago who traveled by bus in 1963 to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with MLK.

2. He's not officially a Democrat, he’s an open socialist.

Sanders is the first Socialist elected in Senate history! Sanders identifies as a "democratic socialist," and since 1981, he has actually campaigned as an independent in his political races. When he ran as an independent for the House in 1990 and won he became the first House member with no party affiliation to hold office in more than 40 years.

1. He's fighting for you, not himself.

I think his words say enough.

“Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities.”

“Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.”

“I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: “I’m not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I’m a terrorist.” That’s not the kind of free society I want for our children.”