Some buddy of Nate's went to Rose Hullman (almost all male elite engineering school). Since no one had a girlfriend...

Think "Dorm room turned into aquarium, fish included, with no permanent damage to the room, the furnishings, or the fish".

And then there was the time they moved the car of the only guy on the floor who had one...onto the dorm roof...and replaced his car with a 1-1 scale model made of snow....

The stuff with post it notes, tin foil, stolen lab explosives, and liquid nitrogen...that was for freshmen.