Stephenson wrote his first novel, "The Big U", while he was still a college student, and he modeled his fictional campus after the real-life Warren Towers dormitory. *What college* did Stephenson attend while writing this novel, which includes the Warren Towers dorm at 700 Commonwealth Avenue, and whose president at the time, John Silber, is the basis for fictional president Septimius Severus Krupp.
Boston University