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One Month Challenge: Giving Up Gossiping, The End
This week was the final week of my month long challenge to not gossip. At first, I had to make a conscious effort to resist the temptation, but it became easier and easier to not gossip. I am currently getting ready to move into my apartment, attend a wedding, and go on job interviews out the ying so there has been plenty that has kept me busy and not gossiping.
The Starting Line: Should You Facebook-Stalk Your New Roommate?
So on behalf of all my soon-to-be college freshmen out there, I can vouch that I have been a Facebook stalking maniac lately. Even more so than when I decide that I like a guy–and it’s pretty unhealthy then. So what’s the source of all this wall-post-analyzing, photo-clicking frenzy? I just received a letter telling me who my 3 randomly selected suitemates are for the upcoming school year.

Saturday Read: Chastened, by Hephzibah Anderson
At first glance, the plump peach and the virginal white background on the cover of Hephzibah Anderson’s first book Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex gives the impression that this memoir will be a succulent read.
From CollegeFashion: Wear Multiple Bright Colors Together
I’m probably preaching to the choir here (after all, you guys are pretty stylish), but you’d be surprised how many college-aged girls are afraid to experiment with color. For example, a few months ago, a friend and I were getting ready for a night out and I suggested she wear turquoise stilettos with her deep plum colored dress — let’s just say you wouldn’t believe the look of horror she gave me!
Candy Dish: Ditch your type…and go for Zac Efron?
• It’s time to ditch your type

• Colbert reenacts Real Housewives fight
• 10 summer trends men hate
• Real life Barbie is actually really scary
• How your sex life is killing the earth
• Efron really is all grown up!
Weekly Wrap Up: Whew, We Survived Jersey Shore
This week should have been transformed into a national holiday. Unless you’re under a bunch of rocks, Jersey Shore and Project Runway premiered yesterday – on the same day as National Lasagna Day. Coincidence? I think not. And if you’re anything of a nerd nugget like myself, Shark Week is also premiering August 1st.
Gossip Cheat Sheet: Hollywood Takes a Breather
All’s quiet on the Hollywood front (most likely because Lindsay is rockin’ the orange jumpsuit). This week has been surprisingly dull with the exception of Blake Lively’s boobs at Comic-Con. Although without the Twilight trio and Daniel Radcliffe, even that nerd-fest was a bummer.

It’s A New Day, And Jennifer Aniston is On Another Tabloid
Another day, another dollar. But I say; another day, another US Weekly Cover of Jennifer Aniston walking around in khakis, a white tee and aviators. I’m serious, this woman is still plastered everywhere on the glossy pages of gossip magazines. Didn’t she and Brad Pitt cut the ties half a decade ago? Exactly what is the appeal keeping her around?
Budget Stylista: It’s So Easy Being Green!
Ah green. The color of trees. And money.
And really, really cute clothes.
WTF Friday: Michael Lohan’s Singin’ the Blues [VIDEO]
It’s not the singing that’s bad. Or the tune, even. I mean, as far as D-Listers-turned-song-writers go, this song blows both Kim Zolciak and The Countess right out of the water.
My Life As…A Student Athlete
If you over hear someone talking about NCAA athletics, you probably automatically think of the football and basketball games you see on TV during March Madness and hear about on the news. You may think of swanky warm-ups, the Big 10 teams who win every year, and spoiled brats who don’t work very hard at anything. But that is not a very accurate representation of the NCAA. There is more to the NCAA then those two big name sports.
Friday Faves: 5 Barely Legal Disney Hearthrobs I Want to Freak
You know how every once in a while, nothing is on TV, and you’re super bored, and maybe it’s a Friday night and you have no plans, and instead of doing something productive like reading you flip around on your remote and end up watching the Disney Channel? Yeah. Don’t deny.
Friday Faves: What Not To Do When You’re Breaking Up
This is a sad story. It begins, as most of my stories do, with me spilling coffee all over myself. I ducked into the nearest clothing store to pick up a cheap new shirt, and found myself staring at a lime-green, rhinestone-encrusted t-shirt reading “My Boyfriend Is Cuter Than Yours.” Next to it, a similar horror, this one reading “I May Be A Flirt, But My Boyfriend Likes It.” Above it, “I’m A Diva! Just Ask My Boyfriend!”
Candy Dish: Good News For The Popular Kids
• Popular people live longer.
• Save your moolah on back to school shopping.
• When Photoshop goes very, very wrong.
• Doesn’t Obama have more important things to do?
• More new American Idol judges??
• There’s not much difference between getting a job and getting a man.
Jersey Shore: Gym, Tan, SMUSH!
First and foremost, this has been the most anticipated show of the year for me. Needless to say, episode one of the Jersey Shore did not disappoint. From the first ten minutes (which we already saw) to the last, it was chock-full of immobile hair, grainy over-contrasted filter shots, super fruity blended drinks and fist pumps galore.
Duke It Out: Free Birth Control?
Birth control is one of many things on a list up for consideration to be included as required free preventative care on overhauled healthcare plans. If BC makes the cut, it could eliminate the extra costs to prevent pregnancy for women all over the country – but should it be included?