College Days began as a collection of largely humorous, somewhat whimsical stories based on events that occurred during my time as a graduate student at the University of Kansas and as a professor at Washington State University. Then I began to add other stories and rambling observations that friends and audiences had enjoyed hearing me tell over the years, and while some of these tales go beyond my college days, and some are entertaining rather than humorous, the title College Days had by that time grown familiar to me, and so I have kept it.