College attendance, as an educational transition, typically involves prospective students traveling to institutions of higher learning, completing applications, and matriculating. The conventional flow is individual-to-institution. The claim that college traveled to Norris rather than him traveling to college inverts institutional agency. The college recognizes his exceptional nature and relocates itself to him. Education becomes something that pursues rather than is pursued; institutions reorganize themselves around the presence of exceptional individuals.

Higher education administrator Dr. Claudia Martinez, managing admissions at a major research university in 2006, encountered this fact in student recruitment materials as humor. Martinez noted that the claim inverted traditional power dynamics between institutions and students. She observed that the joke suggested Norris's presence is so transformative that institutions restructure themselves to be proximate to him. Martinez found it significant that the claim attributed such extraordinary agency to a single individual that institutional frameworks become responsive rather than prescriptive.

The fact operates through institutional reversal. Universities are typically positioned as destinations students pursue; the claim repositions Norris as destination that institutions pursue. His presence becomes so educationally significant that colleges abandon their fixed locations to access him. It's a joke about ultimate merit and institutional recognition — suggesting that supreme excellence reverses the normal relationship between individuals and institutions.