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Come Fab Finding With Me: College Holiday Party
You're cool in school, but instead of hitting the books, you're thinking about the fabulous holiday party your friend is throwing. How are you going to stand out from the crowd? This is the time to put together one of the snazziest outfits you've worn all year.
College Claims Facebook Reduces Dropouts
In general, people seem to agree that Facebook can be a big time-waster... even causing some students lower grades than their less-frequent Facebook-using friends. Now, the BBC is reporting on a Gloucestershire College claim that Facebook is actually cutting down on student dropout rates.
Game Over: Beer Pong Spreading Swine Flu
Frat boys have been called pigs before, but now they might be responsible for spreading swine flu. College partiers are being warned that they can catch H1N1 from beer pong.
Administrators from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute released this statement after a student contracted swine flu from the classic drinking game:
"While it might seem fun over the weekend, it will not be enjoyable when you and your friends are sick and missing class or midterm examinations."
Guess Where These Celebrities Studied!
The new academic year is starting, with lots of students heading to university. From actors, singers and comedians to models and members of the royal family, lots of celebrities attended university too, and several American actresses are college grads. Find out how brainy you are and take my quiz about where these famous faces studied.
Tufts to Dorm Dwellers: Get a Room!
Tufts University has just instituted a policy you'd think wouldn't need to be an official rule: don't have sex in your dorm room while your roommate's present, and don't "sexile" (sex + exile) your roommate, say at 3 a.m., because you want to get it on with your college sweetheart (or random hookup). So basically, if you're dwelling in a dorm, either have enough money to get a hotel room, find a comfy broom closet if passion strikes, or go without.
The Tufts policy arose because students were complaining that their horny roommates were intruding on their privacy and interfering with their studies by either having sex while they were present (ewww!) or asking them to leave for a few minutes.
Do Shows Like Gossip Girl Accurately Reflect College Life?
In an article in the New York Post today, real-life NYU students respond to Gossip Girl's depiction of NYU freshman orientation. What do they think of the show's fictional keg parties on rooftops, characters requesting who they want to room with to the Housing Office, and the notion that NYU is cheaper than Yale? (Here's a Buzz recap of this week's goings-on to refresh your memories!)
Although one blogger gives the thumbs up to the show's reference to an "Art & the World" class he actually took his freshman year at Tisch, another one disses the idea of a rooftop party.
Classy Ladies: 20 Actresses Who Are College Grads
When Emma Watson arrived at Brown University earlier this month, the paparazzi were ready. They snapped up pictures of what looked like her freshman orientation, while tabloids made up stories that she arrived by helicopter, which she later denied. But I believe her.
Head of the Class: How Was Your College Transition?
One day you're in, and the next day you're below New York's 14th Street where, as Blair puts it on last night's Gossip Girl, "there's no class system." Is anything going right for poor Blair on her first day of college? Her gift bags and maid fail to impress her dormmates; her archenemy is her roommate; and that sushi/sake party is an epic fail.
College Cafeterias Are Going Trayless
In an attempt to cut costs and be more eco-chic, many college campuses have gotten rid of cafeteria trays. Instead, students are being forced to carry their meals on plates. The trayless cafeterias are seeing up to a 30 percent decrease in food waste, and with no trays to wash, the use of energy and water is reduced as well.
College Offers Class in Stupidity — Hilarious or Horrifying?
It's about time we took a smart look at stupidity. Occidental College is offering a critical psychology course on the topic of dumbness. Get a load of this excerpt from course description — which, by the way, misspells "Beavis":
Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead.
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