Traina has just been put through the bait-and-switch experienced by most students upon arrival here, albeit in a matter of minutes. For most students, it takes a term or two before the thought "I've been had!" hits them, followed quickly by disillusionment and apathy.

 The "windstorm" comment is a reference to a bit of weather that caused several hundred thousand dollars worth of damage during the first week of September 1996.