Tom Murphy’s dreams were about to come true.

“I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t breathe,” said Murphy, a freshman television-radio-film major. “Hell, I even had trouble using the bathroom – I was just that excited. I spent the better part of the week sitting in my room, bracing myself.”

But by Thursday evening, all of Murphy’s dreams came crashing down, leaving him devastated.

“Do you know what that feels like, to be let down so much?” he said, fighting back tears. “It’s like hearing the local Target finally has ‘The Sims 3’ in stock, but seeing that it’s all sold out by the time you get there. I don’t know – it might even be worse.”

Murphy is one of a rising number of students on the Syracuse University campus grappling with bitter disappointment after discovering that their “Star Wars” idol – Boba Fett – does not live in campus hotspot, Boba Suite.

“I know what that letdown feels like,” said Lewis Clarkson, an undecided sophomore. “I remember my freshman year, completely decked out in my Mandalorian armor and walking into Boba Suite, thinking, ‘I finally get to see where Boba Fett lives.’ Instead, I just started thinking, ‘Why the hell are there so many Asians in here?’”

For fanboys worldwide, Boba Fett is the bounty hunter from the original “Star Wars” movies whose most notable bounty was in 3 ABY, when he captured Rebel hero, Han Solo, and delivered him to Jabba the Hutt encased in carbonite. Yet for the fanboys on the Syracuse University campus, Boba Fett is like the scumbag father who walked out on them and ran away with his stripper girlfriend, Candy.

“I have never even seen ‘Star Wars,’” said Boba Suite co-owner, Lang Lang, who has already had a difficult year with his business. “People keep asking me where the boba is, and when I give them a cup of tapioca, they become upset. I don’t understand…do you want a taro milk tea?”

SU officials have made promises to resolve the misconception for both current and prospective students. University tour guides, for example, will begin incorporating Boba Suite into their tour paths, emphasizing that it has no affiliation with “Star Wars” or any of its properties.

“We acknowledge that Boba Fett's absence may push prospective students away from attending our campus,” said a university official who wished to remain anonymous. “But we remain hopeful that our endless supply of Sbarro pizzas will sway those sitting on the fence.”

But for students like Murphy, the situation may ultimately prove as a valuable learning experience.

“I’ve gotta keep that shit on lockdown,” he said. “Maybe I’ll join some underground secret society constantly on the lookout for a real Boba Fett sighting. Otherwise, I’m just setting myself up for a loss every time.”