Do you spend a lot of time playing Rock Band with your roomies and pretending like your entire town is listening and cheering you on? Oh, that’s just me and my roommate? Don’t tell her I told you.

Anyway, there are plenty of things you can actually do (apart from pretend to be a great drummer on your Wii) to rock your college years. Like what, you ask?

• You can get involved and make a name for yourself. Because who doesn’t want to be recognized by everyone they pass while walking to class Friday morning with a hangover like a plane crash?
• Why don’t you hit up the local karaoke spot? So what if it sounds like three cats are dying all at once when you sing…drunk people will eat it up. And at a karaoke bar in a college town, I can guarantee you that everyone is drunk.
• Pull a Lady Gaga and show up to class in an egg. Professor, I needed time to incubate on my thoughts. Get it? Incubate? Even better if this is biology. Read More »

The new year not only brings Jan 1st hangovers and regret over your choice for the midnight kiss, (who may still be lying next to you as you read this…) but also a plethora of New Year’s Resolutions. However I’ve discovered through extensive research and observation that there are certain resolutions that college students make and then break every. single. year. These are the top three New Years Resolutions that are forgotten by Groundhogs day.

1. Get in Shape

Whether it’s the fact that spring break is weeks away or that people over-indulged on holiday dips and homemade cooking, everyone comes back to school with overly-optimistic gym ambitions. Ellipticals that haven’t been used in months are suddenly turned on and counting calories. Everyone tries out the stairmaster once and a few braver people venture to the other side of the gym to lift weights. It’s always easy to identify the new-years-resolution-workouts; they are the people with the too-well matched gym outfits who do an amazingly intense workout for the first five minuntes and then spend the next 35 minutes walking and talking about being really serious about getting into shape. They chug their water, wipe off their nonexistent sweat and they’re never seen in the gym after January 31st. Read More »