Halloween is just around the corner (!!), and while you’re probably still putting the final touches on your Gaga-getup have you thought about how you’re going to be celebrating? Yes, Halloween may just be another excuse to get drunk (or dress as a drink!) and gorge on candy but there are ways to get a little more into the spirit of Halloween then slapping animal ears over your favorite lingerie and calling yourself a cat.

Remember the fun days when your mom prepared disgusting looking food for your favorite friends? When you had to stick your hand into a box and feel something gross like slimy spaghetti? Just because you’re in college doesn’t mean the childish fun has to stop.

This year add some creativity to your Halloween celebration with a creepy cocktail or a spooky snack. Get your girlfriends together and make Skeleton Sangria – just each chip in an ingredient! Though it might seem kind of lame to bring a homemade snack to a party, maybe just make something to snack upon while you pre-game with your girls as you shimmy into your pantless outfits. Or, if you’re like me and have a midterm November 1 (some cruel joke, I KNOW!), take it easy with a creepy looking meal with some friends to avoid the Halloween hangover.

[Click on each image for the recipe!] Read More »

Thankfully, they don't give out DUI's for drinking while wearing a moving vehicle.

I’ll be honest: if it weren’t for this Venti Americano sitting next to me right now, I wouldn’t be able to form sentences. I guess that’s what 30 hours of straight Halloween partying will do to you. My friends and I began our festivities on Friday night and went straight on through to very early Sunday morning. My entire weekend was a cycle of drunk, hungover, some form of bread smothered in cheese, then drunk again.

Oh yeah, and I was wearing a bumper car.

While out on my travels (hopping from bar to bar to bar to late night pizza place) I saw lots of awesome costumes. From an amazing VMA Lady Gaga to the best Golden Girls group costume I have ever seen, people really seemed to pull out all the stops this year. And more than the candy (yes, even candy corn pumpkins) and all the fun parties, it is seeing what people come up with that really makes Halloween my favorite holiday of the year.

We’ve all seen what Hollywood A-Listers wore to Heidi Klum’s annual Halloween party (if you haven’t, check it out fo real), and what D-Listers wore to whatever soiree they were invited to. Admittedly, they were pretty good, but I don’t care what Perez Hilton wore out while he was kissing some Hollywood ass. I wanna see what YOU wore.

So send me your pics!

Show off your awesome costumes by emailing your favorite photo to Lauren@CollegeCandy.com. I’ll post them on the site so everyone can see how you rocked it out.

Yeah, Heidi’s little crow thing was pretty impressive, but I’m willing to bet your costume was better than some of these: Read More »

In all our pre-Halloween excitement, we almost forgot that November 1 is also important: it’s the date daylight saving time ends. Fun fact: technically, “saving” isn’t supposed to be plural. I know—my mind is also blown.

Anyway, at 2 AM tomorrow, Americans will get an extra hour to spend however they want. While some sites have advice on the best things to do with that extra hour, we’re going to try something a little different. Here are CollegeCandy’s Ten Worst Ways to Spend Sixty Minutes on November 1:

1. Making out with the guy in a gorilla costume. You’ll still probably be celebrating Halloween at 2 AM on November 1, after all, and you don’t want to waste that precious extra time macking on some hairy beast. Or a guy in a gorilla costume.
2. Furiously Tide Pen-ing your white angel costume after some jackass spills Jack and Coke all over it.
3. Listening to your best friend and her boyfriend bicker about the hot dude dressed as Batman who’s been checking her out all night. Read More »

I think their costumes are the same size...

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I could never understand what wasn’t to like. All the store windows are covered in cotton cobwebs and fake skeletons, people hand you free candy everywhere you go and you can dress up as absolutely anything and walk around in public without being judged. Did I mention the free candy?

It doesn’t matter whether you’re seven or 21, this holiday rocks. What changes, though, is the reasoning behind your excitement. Clearly, we spend the holiday a little differently now then we did back then.

Then: It gave us an excuse to have a party during math class.
Now: It gives us (a valid) excuse to party for a week straight.

Then: We grabbed the biggest bag we could to load up on candy.
Now: We grab biggest burrito we can to load up on carbs to coat our stomachs for the festivities.

Then: We dressed up as our favorite Disney princess.
Now: We dress up as our favorite Disney princess… minus 7 inches of fabric.

Then: “I’ll give you two Kit Kat’s and a nerd rope for that giant Hershey bar!”
Now: “Why don’t we go back to my place, Sexy Police Officer?” Read More »

As the week comes to a close, I am overflowing with pressing questions. Why is it 75 degrees on the east coast halfway through October? What the hell am I going to be for Halloween? How long is it going to take for this milkshake obsession to catch up with my thighs?

I’ll find solace in knowing I’m not the only one asking away.

Here are some of the other questions we have all toyed with over the course of this week:

-Can we find the courage to make the first move?

-Will my dad notice of I charge one Glitter Pocket Cardigan on his credit card?

-Can we summon the motivation to organize my closet?

-Should we really keep our mouth shut about our bff’s douche bag boyfriend?

-Is one more celeb going to come out with their own alcohol?

-Does that guy seriously not realize he has moose-knuckle?

-Is it crazy that setting up a bowling alley in the dorm hallway sounds freakin’ awesome?

-Where is this party at? And can I go? Read More »

Halloween is here tomorrow! Break out the giant bowls of candy, the pumpkins and the fishnets that somehow go with every costume! It is time to get your Halloween Partayyy on. Whether you go Liq-or-Treating, to a Monster Bash, or just stay home and hand out candy to the kiddies, you gotta be dressed for the occassion.

We have been working on our costume all week long and it rocks. We can’t wait to show it off tomorrow night!

If you don’t have a costume yet, shame on you! But it’s not to late. Maybe CollegeCandy can help you out with some inspiration…

So, CollegeCandy readers, tell us (and the folks without any Halloween creativity) what you will be dressing up as tomorrow night. Leave your costume ideas in the comments section. We can’t wait to see what you came up with this year!

[Photo courtesy of Flickr] 

Halloween can be a great holiday; candy, being able to wear those 4-inch glitter pumps you bought for some occasion that could only be Halloween, weird-colored drinks that taste like an explosion of sugar…we could go on. Halloween is just badass.

But you know what? Halloween can also be really, really inappropriate. Inappropriate body parts shoved into spandex, inappropriate masks that scare the bejeezus out of people on the street, inappropriate dances to inappropriate song selections such as “Monster Mash” — if you’re not careful, this holiday can quickly go from good time to complete epic FAIL.

Here’s a few ways that can happen… Read More »

Fact. When you sign up for Myspace, you have control over the privacy on your account.

Fact. No one forces your profile and pictures to be seen by everyone. You can choose the option if you want, but you can also choose to only show your friends and/or those you accept.

Fact. Millersville student, Stacy Snyder, must have been unaware of these things. Either that, or she’s a moron. I’ll choose the latter.

MSN.com reports the story of Snyder, who was on track to receive a degree in teaching. Everything was going according to plan. That is, until the university discovered her Myspace pictures. And no, they were not pictures of her and her family enjoying a lovely picnic at the park, or photos of her dancing at a nice ballet recital, or of her standing in front of the Washington Monument, holding her hand out to appear as though she’s holding the tiny little monument in her hand, like this. They were pictures of her, wasted at a Halloween party, wearing a pirate costume, with a drink in her hand and the caption, “Drunken Pirate.”

Millersville refused her education degree the night before graduation (what a DISS!) and gave her an English degree instead, because the school said that she “promoted underage drinking.” Read More »