Every college in this country has its own campus myths.

Whether they are about secret societies, certain buildings or even your occasional ghost stories, myths continue to make their way around every generation of students.

Penn State is no exception.

Here there are myths about the meaning of the word "Nittany," ones about Old Main and the countless ones dealing with fraternities and sororities.

Well, one of the first myths I ever heard here was the Loop myth.

To my surprise, not everyone has heard of the Loop myth.

However, I was told if I were to accidentally get hit by the bus, I would receive free tuition to Penn State.

So over the past four years, as my funds dwindled slowly, I always joked to my friends about how I was going to come up with a plan to strategically get hit by the Loop so I didn't have to pay for the rest of my tuition.

But recently, I started thinking that maybe this myth wasn't such a good deal after all.

Even though it is just a myth, I began to deliberate on all the hassles that I would be put through if I ever was involved in this fictional accident.

Regardless of the amount of pain I would feel from being in such an event, there would be numerous rehabilitation costs in order to get back to my normal life.

So I wondered, does this free tuition really outweigh the all the various medical costs I would have to pay if this was for real?

Now, I'm sure no one has ever seriously contemplated seeing if this myth is true.

But if it were, I don't think Penn State would be holding up their part just by giving free tuition.

According to the Office of Student Aid's Web site, the estimated tuition fees for an in-state student for the 2005/2006 school year are $11,480.

However, this amount does not include housing, food, books or any other personal supplies.

Because this is a myth and there are no specifics on if Penn State would pay for the extra costs, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and tallied them into the equation as well.

Housing and meal expenses would be about $6,500.

Books would cost about $1,100. And other various expenses would be about $1,500.

This adds $9,100 in extra expenses onto the base tuition.

For a total of $20,580, this myth seemed like a pretty decent deal to me when I first glanced at it.

Then I thought about the medical bills I would receive from getting injured.

Medical expenses, including the severity of the injury, length of stay at the hospital and a multitude of others vary in price, but always add up greatly in the thousands when the damages are this great.

Although it would be wonderful to not have any more loans to pay back, what about everything I would have to go through and pay for to get healthy again?

Getting hit by a bus of the Loop's magnitude would cause immense harm to any person.

Costs for surgery, medications, testing, physical therapy and so on are not all covered by medical insurance allowing more fees to be counted towards my expenses. Hospital bills can be outstanding, depending on how much a person has to go through and getting hit by a bus would surely cause severe injuries.

So there I would be, broken limbs and bruised, chilling in the hospital just for Penn State to offer me my $20,580 so I can have a free ride. This amount doesn't seem so great to me anymore.

Not to mention that I probably wouldn't even be able to use it because I would have to take time off from school to heal.

If this myth were true, Penn State would be getting out pretty easy with just their free tuition offer.

So with tuition rising every year, it becomes a bigger stress to take out higher loans to pay for college. For once, I thought that maybe this myth could solve my financial dilemma and bring some hope to desperate students around the campus, yet it has ultimately failed.

So watching the Loop fly on by, weighing out my options, it occurred to me that I could make this myth a reality, sue Penn State and get even more money than this myth had ever intended to give.

My defense could be that there is no sign on the bus stating "Caution: Loop might hit you if you stand in front of it."

I mean, it worked for McDonald's coffee right?

Anyone know Edgar Snyder's number?