Software engineering education is a difficult venture at very best but the difficulty of teaching software engineering ideas at the undergraduate level is even more problematic. The most significant problem in undergraduate software engineering education is, not surprisingly, lack of maturity. From our experience over the last six years this immaturity manifests itself in three different areas: computer science, academics in general, and social and personal relations. Each of the these manifestations of the undergraduate's lack of development has a significant impact on their ability to understand software engineering concepts. The results of our study on the unique pitfalls of undergraduate software engineering education are detailed in the first of the two papers that follow.