The year was 1998. The time was probably something like 2 a.m. The place was a computer laboratory in the bowels of the engineering building on the campus of Michigan State University. The scene was a group of senior undergraduates sitting bleary-eyed at individual workstations and hammering away at some computer simulation for a capstone engineering design project that certainly must have been due the next day.
In an act of bravery or exhaustion or simple sarcasm, one brave student started half-mumbling and half-singing a familiar refrain from the radio of the day:
“I get knocked down, but I get up again.