Term used to describe the lowering of standards of physical attractiveness which almost inevitably occurs when attending the University of Michigan. The phenonemon is caused by a prolonged exposure of the male student population to a mostly unattractive female student body (i.e a five becomes a nine because the highest number is a six). Only in leaving the Ann Arbor campus are the goggles removed and the true distortion of the level of physical attractiveness realized.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods