For those of you who attended college, what you are about to read should be somewhat familiar. For those who didn’t attend college (and I mean sleep away college, not a local college to which you commute), what you are about to read will seem like something from another planet.

The closest thing I can refer you to is the movie Animal House. I can state for certain that the things depicted in that movie were “routine” at my undergraduate school.

Let me take you through my four years of undergraduate schooling at a prestigious engineering school, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, locate...