So, I did it. I bit the bullet and posted a Missed Connection.

I couldn’t help myself. I had seen a cute boy on the subway. Adorable, actually. This kid was everything I had been hoping New York would have tucked away in one of its dirty, graffiti covered apartments. Everything I had dreamed I’d softly bump into one of these sultry nights on 2nd Avenue.

He wasn’t a skinny, nauseatingly dressed Hipster. He wasn’t a gelled Wallstreeter secretly hiding a yellowed wife-beater under a polished polo. He wasn’t a moody artist wearing eyeliner and hunching over a notebook covered in scrawling of his pain. He was adorably normal. Sweetly natural. Still un-New York-ified. Just like me.

I saw him on the R train heading uptown. The moment I sat down and spied him I became consumed with sneaking looks at his tired, boyish face. He was dressed like he worked in some kind of uptown office, black pants a little too short for his lanky legs, old school headphones perched atop endearingly tousled brown hair. For 15 minutes I looked at him whenever he looked somewhere else.

All too soon he got off. I tried to watch him leave, but my vision was blocked by a marvelously fat guy and his incredibly giant lunch bag. 15 minutes was hardly long enough. I wanted more time with this specimen of cuteness. Read More »

You’re on the subway reading the latest New York Times bestseller, when you look up to see a gorgeous stranger giving you the come-hither look. You lock eyes, flirting with raised eyebrows and half-smiles until one of you gets off (the subway—get your mind out of the gutter!) By the time you get home, you’ve planned the wedding and have named your future child Orange.

The only problem? You don’t even know this person’s name, let alone their phone number. Luckily for you, there’s Craigslist. The same place where you buy your used furniture and sex is also the place to go to for your “missed connections.” Just post your ad with details about where and when you saw your future soul mate/one night stand, cross your fingers, and hope they’re on Craigslist looking for you too.

I’ll admit—I may have perused the Missed Connections section in NYC in the past. And I’m always left feeling some mixture of hopefully, disturbed, and amused. A rundown of my favorite recent missed connections:

The Good:

F train- you told me I was beautiful as you exited the train – w4m

Around 11:30 this morning (Saturday, June 30th) -

you: orange polo, great smile, got on the train somewhere in downtown brooklyn

me: brown hair, polka dotted pink dress

Exchanged smiles and eye contact. I wish I wasn’t such a pussy and had talked to you at the time. What you said to me as you were getting off the train was very sweet and has kept me smiling for the rest of the day. Read More »

If you’re like me, college has put a severe dent in your wallet. So much of a dent, it seems like the day you’ll finally pay back all those loans will be the day you check yourself in a retirement home.

When it comes to finding ways to make cash, my motto is “anything except prostitution and drugs” (I’d even strip, but sadly, I dance like a blind five-year-old and would most likely kill myself in five inch heels). I’ve worked a lot of odd jobs, and sometimes feel like I’d do almost anything for an extra hundred bucks.

That’s where science comes in.

Poor college kids all over the country have found a way make money fast, easily, and by doing almost no work: they become lab rats.

Log onto to your city’s Craigslist, look up at subway ads or even in the classifieds in your school’s paper–advertisements for “study participants” are everywhere. Research experiments usually need people, and who has time to take a few hours out of their day to watch simultaneous images of turtles and hard core pornography? College kids. Read More »

Moving to another state used to be a nightmare; finding the perfect apartment, furnishing it with perfect furniture and landing that perfect job seemed almost if not completely impossible. That was until God (or Santa if you are a non believer) brought us Craigslist.com. Now, not only can you find a place to live, a job, and some really great free crap, but you can do it all from the comfort of your toilet!!! Thank you, Craig!

Being that I just began my new post-college life, I have spent a good portion of the last six months scouring the internet for cheap Gucci bags and a new place to live (stopping every now and then for a viewing of the always favorite, “Dick in a Box”).

And obviously I was visiting the best site ever: Craigslist.com. For those of you living under a rock, this site has it all (and I mean ALL). You can search nearly every big city (even Detroit is on there!) for places to live, jobs, furniture, tickets, used instruments, used cars, and even used men and women. It is a one stop shopping site; think Wal-Mart meets Match.com. Read More »

No. It’s not me. Let’s just get that out of the way right now.

I’ll admit that I have joked to my boyfriend about being left with no choice but to sell my body when I was particularly stressed about financial obligations and my lack of funds in college. Keyword: joked. Needless to say, he did not find that very funny and looked at me like I was nuts.

But, what would it really be like to work your way through college as a callgirl? And share it with the whole world? Well one girl is doing just that through her blog, Confessions of a College Callgirl. And let me tell you, she does not hold anything back and shares every.graphic.detail.

It’s one of those blogs that is very juicy, yet at parts, very sad and disheartening, and for some reason, you just can’t stop reading.

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I did it. At 2:48 this morning, I posted my first Missed Connection on Craigslist. I feel a little creepy, a little dirty and strangely exhilarated.

I have been addicted to the Missed Connections for some time now. I read them every night hoping I’ll recognize myself in one of them, but there’s never been anything remotely close to a description of me or a situation I’ve been in. But I mean, I probably have, like, seventy missed connections per day that I don’t even realize I’m having.

That’s why they’re missed connections, right? And they just fall by the wayside, into the missed connection graveyard, never to be thought about again. So I figured in this instance I’d take action.

And why not? I’m positive it’s not going to work. My M.C. was with a waiter at a popular coffee hangout near me who said he liked my shirt. Yeah, yeah. He probably likes every girl’s shirt if it means a bigger tip. I put two quarters in the tip jar! That’s half a load of laundry! This relationship is really heating up. Read More »

So craigslist is a very money site. I can find furniture, sell my used books and even find a creepy love interest if I’m so inclined. And when I’m ready for the real-world-working thing, I’m sure I’ll check out the job listings.

But, my friends, I’ve discovered a better site; it has all the gloriousness of craigslist but has been tailored to fit the college student’s needs — umarkt.com. Created to fill the void of an online marketplace for us, Umarkt helps to find roommates, housing and even sweet rides. It’s totally free and all you have to do is register to use it. Not many schools are listed yet, but they encourage users to add theirs.

So check it out!