Ed Huntress wrote:

When John Belucci, in "Animal House," said "seven years of college
down the drain," I knew just how he felt. g

g I recall it as, "Seven years of college shot to hell."

I marched in my college NROTC unit in the homecoming parade shortly after
the movie came out in 1977. I was expecting someone to do something to us
but nothing happened... ;-)

-- Mark