> This scenario that OP describes happened for me, and presumably for OP as well. It doesn't happen for all, or even most, people attending college. It only happens for the right people who attend the right college in exactly the right circumstances.

That's quite a number of college attendees (graduates?) standing on the shoulders of a single personal anecdote.

I'd estimate an equal number received prank phone calls their Freshman year from inebriated idiots fascinated by the length of their Sri Lankan roomate's name as it appeared in the student directory. (Yes, a physical fucking student directory!)