> Unfortunately, I doubt the tech department at the university would appreciate or allow me to poke holes in their firewall to forward 443 and 80 to my server
This is one of those interesting major differences between institutions of higher learning that often goes unremarked: some universities (generally the Internet first-adopters) have entire IPv4 subnets and don't firewall machines on their networks.
A machine connected to their networks is just publicly accessible by IP address.
> Unfortunately, I doubt the tech department at the university would appreciate or allow me to poke holes in their firewall to forward 443 and 80 to my server