July 10, 2009
- 11:00 am
By CC Staff

Remember when you were 13 and everything seemed like the biggest deal ever and “OMG you are going to die because life is just so bad”? Oh, and you were wearing giant bell bottom jeans and a shirt with a condom pocket on the sleeve? Yeah, those were the days.
Don’t you wish you could hop into a DeLorean and go back and give that girl some (fashion) advice? Maybe a little nugget of wisdom to make those angsty teenage years just a little less angsty? Unfortch, we can’t go back there (or maybe it’s a good thing – I don’t like looking at pictures of myself with that perm, so interacting with it in person would be devastating), but if you could, what would you say?
This week I asked the CollegeCandy team to share their life lessons with their younger selves.
What wisdom would you impart? Read More »
Tags: Advice, advise, awkward, awkward phase, awkward stage, back to the future, college, college grad, DeLorean, high school, middle school, perm

So far this summer, I’ve been having the constant desire to re-live childhood summer times, a.k.a hopping in my DeLorean and gunning it to 1999. The days when I was 9 years old and the world was mine. The days when the only thing I had to worry about trying not to hurt myself when I was Skippin’ It outside all day. The days when I was bumpin’ “If You Steal My Sunshine” and getting a perfect tan from swimming all day at camp. Those last moments of childhood where you could run around naked without feeling an ounce of self-consciousnes (knowing next summer you might be gettin’ some new curves).
10 years later, there are so many questions. What will my major be? Do I have enough hours at work? Do I need to take summer classes? Where da party at? When’s the next sunny day for tanning? Does he want a relationship or a hook-up? Did I text too much this month? Should I get that new iPod? It obviously doesn’t get easier.
Preeeeeetttyyy sure I wasn’t asking myself those questions when I was a kid. So I say, what the hell? Let’s worry less and bring more pre-pubescent nostalgia back into our summer lives with some fun old-school pastimes: Read More »
Tags: 1999, chalk, childhood, DeLorean, escape, hustler, lemonade stand, nostalgia, parking lots, pastimes, personal paradise, questions, self consciousness, slip n slide, sprinklers, summer, summer activities, summertime, sunbathing, sunny, treehouse