I think that the Varsity is the ultimate college bike. It should do you right.

As an FSU alum it is more hilly than most of FL but not to bad. Drove thru Tally a few months ago and there seem to be bike lanes everywhere now, was not like that ten years ago!

I Have always kept the drop bars on my Schwinns. Turkey levers will not work that well on steel rims, but if you are going to lock it up outside of class, I would leave them on as theft deterent, even if you got some alloy rims. Same for the derailers and stem shifters. I rode a varsity all over that school with all original parts. It was an absolute rust bucket, and I told all my proffs that rode newer bikes that as soon as enough of the frame rusted out, it would be almost as light as thiers