When the first Transformers was shooting, director Michael Bay kept hammering one point home: this is the story of a kid getting his first car. That was the battle cry, and – to a certain degree – it was true. Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky did get his first car (and smoking hot Megan Fox), but then that car ended up being an alien robot searching for the All Spark cube.

Now that filming has wrapped up on the Princeton, NJ set, NJ.com has a piece about the filming that reveals Bay’s new distracting-character-information-plot-summary…

In a brief interview outside Princeton’s Whig Hall during a catered lunch break for the cast and crew yesterday, Bay shed a little light on Princeton’s role as a setting in the “Transformers” sequel.

The university angle to the plot “is all about Sam growing up and going to college … a teenager growing into a man,” Bay said.

Sam is college student Sam Witwicky, LaBeouf’s character in the special-effects-packed film about warring good and evil robots from another planet that come to Earth disguised as cars, planes, trucks and other machines.

In the first movie, Witwicky and his love interest, Mikaela Banes (played by Fox), help the faction of good robots, the Autobots, in their battle against the evil Decepticons.

As the battle continues in the second film, LaBeouf and Fox reprise their roles. Although both characters have grown from high school- to college-age since the first “Transformers” installment, only LaBeouf’s Witwicky is off to college because Fox’s Banes can’t afford school, Bay said.

With Witwicky enrolled at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel, Banes comes from Los Angeles as a visitor to her friend’s new campus, Bay said.

Megan Fox is too poor to go to an East Coast Ivy League school? Don’t you think that after being integral to saving the world after that big robot fight in the streets of Los Angeles would make a killer application essay?

One of the college’s a B&U staffer went to actually let The Olsen Twins in for awhile (neither graduated, but they were in) and they were a lot less famous than the people who were part of that strangely unexplained robot fight.

Get our point? Oh well, as long as Megan Fox’s direction consists of “just be hot,” we’ll let most everything else ride…until the robots start fighting.