Thomas J. Celi is a retired scientific software engineer with fifty years of professional experience. He earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His career led him to programming Advanced Math problems. He founded his own business, Digital Graphic Inc., and ran it for twenty-six years. He has been married to Loretta for sixty-three years and have five adult children, seventeen grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. His hobbies includes building scale boat models and RC model planes. Frequently, thoughts flow into his head during the night. The College Boy was one of those thoughts. The first few chapters were purely figments of his imagination. But later, he recalled his worldwide business and pleasure travels and used The College Boy as the media to convey his memories to you, the reader. Tom's Italian background and travels through Italy influenced the boy and characters he met. Family is very important to Tom, so it is to The College Boy. Tom and the boy worked with their fathers in a family business from an early age. However, advanced education separated the boy and Tom from the businesses. Mathematics was key in the development of both Tom and the boy. Tom learned Advanced Math from on-the-job education. The boy had a natural talent for math.