The final weeks of my entire college career are wrapping themselves up quickly.  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I was sitting in my first boys dorm room, trying to decide what I was going to do with all of these brand new opportunities?  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I was eating Cheez-its for dinner, and pulling my first all nighter?  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I slapped my first bag?

Since there is a first time for everything, let me tell you about the senior slide. This week, I didn’t want to do a single thing that pertained to school.  Get this, I even took it upon myself to scroll through a healthy amount of pictures (649, to be exact) tagged of myself on Facebook to dodge homework production. It’s bad. Real bad.

If you’re Senior Slidin’ (or just ready to ditch the books and do something, anything, else), here’s one more thing to get you through the few remaining hours of the week: taking a look at what already happened.

- We are counting down the days (and it feels like it’s taking forever) for Glee to be back in our lives. In case you aren’t excited enough, look at our favorite musical gems brought to you by Schuester and his glee club.

- Lately, I have been obsessed with the sophisticated boyfriend blazer, and we can help you make your own!

- We know Cosmopolitan says the darndest things, but we also discovered Glamour and Maxim have the same silly tendencies in their glossy pages, too.

- We said goodbye to Hannah Montana and contemplated the reasons why Miley is moving out on her own. Read More »

Rest your head in my bosom, Eddie

There has been a lot of relationship news this week, and for once it’s not ALL about Sandra/Jesse and Elin/Tiger. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to read stories about other celebs! (And to let a few days go by without some other mistresses stepping forward. Perhaps it’s over??) Not that I wanted to hear about Tiki Barber cheating on his pregnant (with twins) wife with an NBC intern…. in her dorm room. What is wrong with these men?!

If you’ve been too busy to keep up with the celebrity gossip or just too annoyed with Hollywood dirtballs to care, here is the lowdown on some of the biggest gossip of the week.

1. Rumor has it Ed Westwick and Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szhor split yesterday. Apparently Jess was getting frisky with one of Ed’s good friends, Marco Minuto. She was flirting it up during her birthday, and they went back to the same hotel all while Ed was filming in Europe. Ed allegedly broke it off when he heard the news and is really upset about the whole thing. HOWEVER, recent reports from the Gossip Girl peeps say “the story has no merit.” Don’t worry Ed, if this is true, all of CC will comfort you, you sexy man!

2. Michael Lohan proposes to Jon Gosselin’s ex-girlfriend, Kate Major, this week and they are really excited about it. So excited, in fact, that they have been pumping this story into the tabloids and Tweeting it every chance they get. The couple also might be trying for a baby and, according to Michael, they “practice at least four times a night.” Ew, no wonder Lindsay wanted to vomit when she heard the news. Seriously though, we don’t need anymore Lohans running around.

3. Earlier this week, rumors were flying that a very explicit sex tape was being shopped around of Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. Since the news of Jesse’s infidelities broke, Sandra hasn’t said one word publicly, but she spoke out against this latest rumor saying, “There is no sex tape. There never has been one and there never will be one.” Jesse’s rep also confirmed that there is no tape. Rumors of divorce are still floating around, but no one has confirmed or denied it. Good news for Sandy: Jesse James’ show “Jesse James Is A Dead Man” has been canceled, and he was voted the “Most Hated Man in America” by Entertainment Weekly. Way to go, America! Read More »

That’s it. I have decided: the most complicated part of college is not chemistry labs, understanding my political science professor’s accent (though that might be second), or even trying to figure out which major to be. The worst, most confusing part is trying to figure out those more-than-friends-but-not-really-officially-anything relationships.

That in-between stage of limbo is an awful place to be. For me at least. For some people, casual relationships or friends with benefits can work perfectly fine, but I just cannot figure it out. Maybe it’s because I had such a serious boyfriend all through high school, or just because I am kind of a serious person, but I hate that in-between stage.

I hate wondering if he’s going to call, and if he does, wondering if it’s a friendship call or a more-than-friendship call. I can’t stand zoning out during class and thinking about him, then wondering if he ever thinks of me at all. I get frustrated by the amount of time I spend analyzing his every word, because we’ve never flat-out discussed what we are and what we’re not. I hate wondering if that drunken hook up is a mistake, something that’s going to keep on happening, or something we’ll be doing sober, too.

I need some definition!  Read More »

Your boyfriend is in the shower and you venture over to his computer to check your Facebook only to find that he is already logged in.  Usually you would just log him out (or so you say) but this time, you can’t help but notice he has been “poked” by an ex-girlfriend.  You freeze.  You consider your options: sign out and go about your business, or sort through all of his inbox messages to see if there is any other incriminating evidence.  His buzzing Blackberry a foot away only fuels your temptation farther.

To snoop or not to snoop?  It is the question we have all been faced with.

Obviously, if asked whether we “spy” on our significant others, we hastily reject the notion because clearly we’re not one of those “psycho girlfriends.”  But admit it, you’re guilty on at least one account.  However, if you had probable cause, and your unlawful search and seizure did lead you to evidence unraveling your case, you may be able to use the self-defense plea. (OMG, I need to stop watching Law and Order marathons…)

We all know there are different levels of snooping. Reading text messages while pretending to play Brickbreaker on his phone is not as punishable as hacking into his Facebook daily.  And neither pale in comparison to installing spyware on his computer that will track his activity for you to later sort through.

So where is the line drawn? Is some level of snooping OK or should it be completely off-limits?  Read More »

Windows are up, shades are on, legs are tanned (hopefully) and it’s time to whip out the shorts for the summer.  But don’t worry, just because your sweats are going in storage doesn’t mean you have to spend your life savings on shorts to beat the heat.  Buy one pair of tailored, cuffed, lightweight dark denim shorts, and you can dress them up, down and all around.  Take these adorable pair from Forever 21, for example, and check out a few ways to style them: Read More »

I can say with 100% certainty that the people behind KFC’s new Double Down – bacon and cheese smashed between two pieces of fried chicken – smoke a lot of pot. And I can say with 1,000% certainty the the people who will order this do the same.

Those after-school specials were right: weed is dangerous.

"So you see, class, that is why men think fart jokes are funny."

Traditionally, many universities offer an array of courses under the department of Women’s Studies.  As an acceptable area of study, it is a bit confusing why its counterpart, Men’s Studies, is not more prevalent.  Although it does exist, its main focus is typically on social construction of masculinity.  This week, New York’s Wagner College announced the new “Foundation for Male Studies” to supplement what Men’s Studies is lacking.  Its purpose is to focus on “the male as male” and the “purpose of maleness.”  Clearly a topic we are all dying to be educated on.

In order to properly teach the male as male curriculum, a set of rules has already been set forth so that the classroom setting mirrors how men act in real life.  For example, if a student needs extra help with his work, or is feeling overwhelmed by the demands of the course, the student must text message his teacher to discuss these issues.  Meeting with the teacher face to face would only solve things efficiently and ease communication: obviously too easy.  Instead, to protect his maleness, he must attempt this text conversation and wait half an hour in between each response so that both parties will end up more confused than when they started.  Read More »

After months of being inundated with previews and ads, Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s Date Night is finally premiering tonight. I for one am quite excited; how can a movie with two of my favorite people not be good?

If only I had someone to take me to see it.

For those of you who haven’t turned on the TV in 3 months (or fast-forward through commercials), the movie is about a married couple who’s date night goes totally awry. Now, I’m not married (sorry mom), but I’ve had my fair (or not so fair) share of really bad dates that ended in total disaster. Like the time my then BF wanted to take me out for a really nice date to a sushi restaurant and there was something wrong with my food. Three hours later, we were working together to plunge the toilet and soak up the overflow before it hit the hallway. Talk about romance.

In honor of the movie’s release, and to make me feel a bit better about my cursed love life, this week I asked the CollegeCandy writers to share their own dating horror stories. Tell us about your worst date in the comments section below.

Charlsie – Hollins University: I once dated this guy who thought he was good at everything. When I invited him over to hang out with my friends, we ended up playing the board game Candyland. Mr. I Am The Best At Everything lost, and he ended up getting so upset that he actually threw the Candyland pieces around. The kicker was that his guy thought his greatest attribute was his maturity.

Rachael – University of Miami: The guy I was seeing last semester brought me to his frat’s semi-formal and let his brother hit on me all night for his amusement. Then was annoyed when I asked if I could borrow his coat for the walk home (he had long sleeves and an undershirt, I had a sleeveless dress). Then, to finish off the night, when I asked for help unzipping my dress before he left – making it clear, especially the way things had been going, that I genuinely needed help and that was all – he told me that if I had been implying something, it was okay. So I asked if he wanted to stick around. He thought and responded, “Not tonight.” Read More »

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We all have our own definitions of what does and doesn’t count as sex. There’s the classic, “just the tip doesn’t count” or the frat party anthem, “if I can’t remember it, it doesn’t count” or, my personal favorite, “he didn’t get off so it doesn’t count.” But apparently there’s a whole new level of not counting at college – according to a survey at the University of Kentucky, only 20% of students think oral sex counts as sex.

On one side, I get where they’re coming from. Truth be told, I’ve never really thought of oral on the same level as “real” sex (aka penetration), and most of the girls I know wouldn’t include a guy in their “number” if they had only given/received head. Whenever schools or parents or after-school specials talked about sex, they always meant horizontal mambo, baby-making sex; I don’t think I even knew oral existed until all of the guys started snickering about it in middle school. And once you got old enough to actually be doing dirty deeds, getting an Australian kiss always seemed more like foreplay than actual legit sex. After all, we were always taught that sex was about emotions and how it was an expression of love, which, I guess shoving your head between someone’s legs kind of is, but it was never the romantic sort of thing that movies and TV shows call sex, so why should it count? Read More »