Playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on survival mode is about 'earning the triumphs'

I'm in the middle of a snow-blighted wasteland, and everything is white. It would be hard to tell day from night if not for the fact that night is much colder. My only source of heat is some threadbare clothing recently issued to me. I'm exhausted and starving, but carrying precious little food. My school is not all that far off, but the last time I tried to take shelter there, a mob of criminals tried to kill me. There is a world of safer, warmer places I could go, but I am on foot in this blizzard, and I don't think I would survive the walk.