• This Post Grad Life: 3 Things I Learned From Girls Weekend

    This Post Grad Life: 3 Things I Learned From Girls Weekend

    My failure to hang out with my girlfriends is an innocent mistake, but when me and my five college ladies planned a weekend (annual) getaway last weekend, I couldn’t help but get that little tingle of excitement in my veins to spend some time with people that make me feel fresh and fabulous. It’s real people; you can push time away from your clusterf*ck of a schedule, for your friends.

  • 5 Easy Ways to Be a Good Friend

    5 Easy Ways to Be a Good Friend

    Friends are important. They’re there for you, no matter what. They’re there to make you laugh. They’re there to let you cry. They’re there for <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2010/10/18/the-8-traits-of-a-great-wingwoman/">nights out</a> and nights in and cram sessions and outfit emergencies. They let you rant about boys and books and bars and beer.

  • Surviving Senior Year: Separation Anxiety

    Surviving Senior Year: Separation Anxiety

    On Thursday night I had dinner with a friend. We went to the same college, but she graduated last year, so I haven’t seen as much of her as I used to. But when we finally had the chance to hang out and catch up, it reminded of how much I missed her, how much I missed having her around. It made me stop and think about what would happen next year, after I’ve graduated.

  • The Starting Line: My New BFFs?

    The Starting Line: My New BFFs?

    Okay, so you know how when you watch a new reality show, the first few episodes are always crazy because all these people with huge personalities are thrown together and it is just like a huge firecracker of insanity? Things happen that happen seem totally normal, but looking back you just don’t even understand how any of it was possible.

  • College Q&A: Balancing Friendships

    College Q&A: Balancing Friendships

    So I’m a sophomore and I’m living in my sorority house. I’m having the best time – there’s always someone to hang out with here and there’s always something going on. The problem is that my non sorority friends have been getting mad at me for not hanging out with them. It’s not that I don’t want to – it’s just that they live all the way across campus and I don’t have as much time to see them as I did when we lived on the same floor.

  • College Q&A: Sober Fun?

    College Q&A: Sober Fun?

    Question: I don’t like drinking but I feel like that’s all there ever is to do in my college town on the weekends. What are people supposed to do in college who don’t like to get wasted every night? And how are we supposed to find friends when all they ever do is go out and get drunk?

  • Are You Prepared For Thanksgiving Break?

    Are You Prepared For Thanksgiving Break?

    Congratulations, freshwomen; you’re almost done with your first semester of college! Finals are coming faster than you can say “blue book,” but before you get there, you have one last big hurdle: going home for Thanksgiving. If you haven’t been home yet during the semester, odds are, you’re excited to see your friends and, though you’d hate to admit it, your family.

  • College Friends vs. High School Bonds

    College Friends vs. High School Bonds

    I remember going to college expecting to make some of the best friends of my life. It had always seemed that way — you have nice high school friends, but gradually they fade out of the picture and your college friends dominate your life. Wasn’t that the way it was supposed to be?

  • The CC Weekly Weigh In: We Want A Do-Over!

    The CC Weekly Weigh In: We Want A Do-Over!

    No matter how much we all love college, I know that everyone has that one thing they’d like to do-over. Being that we’re all heading back to campus in a few weeks (Oh wait, not me. Sigh.), I asked the CollegeCandy writers to share their do-over wish lists so no one else has to make the same mistakes we did.

  • The Freshman Experience: What is home?

    The Freshman Experience: What is home?

    I was home for Fall Break for four days, and I realized that maybe adapting to college was easier t…

  • Training for New Year’s Eve 2008

    Training for New Year’s Eve 2008

    This morning while slightly (and by slightly I mean, shoot-me-in-the-face) bored at work, I il…