• Surviving Senior Year: Getting Personal

    Surviving Senior Year: Getting Personal

    I still haven’t written my personal statement yet. You know, the one that more or less says “explain yourself in 700 words or less.” The one that asks you to take the last four yours of your life and make them fit in an essay. The one that asks you to be creative, and witty, and unique, while also demonstrating your intelligence and artfully adding in all of your accomplishments.

  • Duke It Out: Gay Affirmative Action

    Duke It Out: Gay Affirmative Action

    When just a couple of decades ago many people couldn’t RISK coming out in college, now schools are trying to recruit applicants from the LGBT community and while I have no qualms about that, I gotta wonder if it’s fair.

  • The Post-Grad Journey: It’s Time To Meet The LSAT!

    The Post-Grad Journey: It’s Time To Meet The LSAT!

    So, it’s crunch time. From this point on until October 9th, my life is really about one thing and one thing only – the LSAT. Of course, I will still have everyday life to live, but from this point on my post-grad life really is going to be dictated by what I am convinced to be as one of the most evil tests in all of existence.

  • The Importance of “Going Green” as a College Student

    The Importance of “Going Green” as a College Student

    In honor of Earth Day, I just want to remind everyone again how important it is to start making changes in your life to live greener. I’m not saying you all have to go out right now and start a compost heap, convert your cars to biodiesel, or throw out your whole wardrobe and only buy clothing made from organic materials. Just do something.

  • College Interview In Your Jammies? Not Quite, But Getting There.

    College Interview In Your Jammies? Not Quite, But Getting There.

    We all remember it like it was yesterday, clear as crystal in our minds: the utter horror of our co…

  • Gossip Girl Recap: Yalies Have All the Fun!

    Gossip Girl Recap: Yalies Have All the Fun!

    When last night’s episode of Gossip Girl opened with a spoofy Eliza Doolittle dream sequ…

  • College Hopping: The Transfer Dilemma

    College Hopping: The Transfer Dilemma

    The University Experience sure has changed. It’s now normal to take longer than four yea…

  • College: Getting In Is About To Get Easier

    College: Getting In Is About To Get Easier

    In high school I kept busy. I took dance classes four days a week, was a member (and eventually edi…

  • College Rankings: Do We Really Care?

    College Rankings: Do We Really Care?

    I pored over the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings when I was a senior in high s…

  • Bard Idiots Carry Drug Lab Across Campus, Get Caught

    Bard Idiots Carry Drug Lab Across Campus, Get Caught

    Three students at Bard College were arrested earlier this month for toting around a portable dr…

  • The New Affirmative Action Plan

    The New Affirmative Action Plan

    Because of my recent discovery that I lack of knowledge of anything that doesn’t involve Britne…

  • US News College Ratings:Complete Bullshit?

    US News College Ratings:Complete Bullshit?

    When I think back to my college search process, I can remember combing through books and magazin…