Abstract:
“The sounds of beer cans snapping to life intermingled with the usual postgame chatter about close plays at third base and what bars had specials later.”

In colleges across the country, 97% of ‘next-morning’ stories are exaggerated and embellished. In the mind's eye of the teller, the average is replaced by the astounding. Co-eds become sultrier, beers are chugged faster and epic nights stretch on infinitely. It is this subtle extra, this slight enhancement of every vivid detail, which gives the topic “College” its brilliant cache as it recedes gently into one's memory bank under the category “Glory Days.” This is one of those stories.