Grade:

B+

There is something particularly universal about the college experience, no matter which overpopulated university or backwoods liberal arts college you attend. According to Steve Hofstetter, author of "Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life," it is the miniscule moments students share that are hilariously typical.

Hofstetter recently graduated from Columbia University, but do not discredit him yet, he published this book his senior year. Now you can hate him. Yet, this is the first peer in a long time to publish the college perspective. Not some middle-aged man that portrays college still by letter jackets or fraternities that pull off outrageous pranks, which are beyond their intelligence. Even at one of the most prestigious colleges in the United States, students still wear shower shoes in the dorm bathrooms, drink bad beer like Bud Light, and have roach-infested couches as patio furniture. The book can be read between classes. A page shy of 100, the substance is hilarious one-liners that follow topics such as "Food," "Gambling," "Academics," "Bars," "Instant Messenger," and "Winter Break." His comments are funny because they are true.

Writing on the topic of money he says, "The only kind of money a college student ever has is a twenty dollar bill. Since ATM's only give out twenties, you end up going to dinner with five people and no one has change. One guy ends up covering it, and everyone says they will pay him back as soon as they get change. Which never happens." Hofstetter is also observant of female students' showering habits in dorms. "I'm surprised that college girls aren't all incredibly strong, with the amount of crap they carry back and forth to the shower every day·"

He is comical about all his opinions, even college sports and alcoholism. Hofstetter says, "Some football teams have drinking problems. Some drinking teams have football problems."

The young cynic deciphers drinking as a unanimous college occasion. He admits, though, that "there are plenty of aspects of college other than sex and alcohol, but those are the two that result in the most noise." But, drinking is problematic for broke students. Hofstetter said, "If warm Budweiser tastes like piss, does cold piss taste like Budweiser? Because man, I could use the money."

He even leaves us with topics to ponder. "Imagine if other illegal things smelled as strong as pot."

"Student Body Shots" is a success. It even has a forward written by fellow classmate Rider Strong, the best friend in "Boy Meets World." And to think ÷ if only you had been taking notes all those drunken late nights. You know you have said "Man, that shit is funny. Someone needs to write that one down," before. Especially those stoners, they say the damnedest things.