• Want To Break Curfew? Drug Your Parents. [Sugar Binge]

    Want To Break Curfew? Drug Your Parents. [Sugar Binge]

    A 16-year-old girl who did not appreciate her parents’ policy of no Internet after 10PM decided to take charge of the situation. She laced her mom and dad’s milkshakes with prescription sleeping pills on two separate occasions.

  • How to Survive Christmas When You Sort Of… Hate Your Family

    How to Survive Christmas When You Sort Of… Hate Your Family

    The holidays are a time for food, festivities and family. It’s about hanging out with the people you love and just relaxing and having fun. But what if you kind of hate your family?

  • Expectation vs. Reality: Graduation Edition

    Expectation vs. Reality: Graduation Edition

    The student life is getting old. I want to be a real person with a real job! I want to get home from work and be done for the day, no homework! I want to have time on the weekends! But I think that sometimes I get carried away imagining my glamorous post-grad life. In reality, graduation can be a really humbling experience.

  • Birthday Faves: 21 Things I Learned in My 21st Year

    Birthday Faves: 21 Things I Learned in My 21st Year

    Just last February, I was planning my 21st birthday party. Now, I’m facing 22 (or as I like to call it 21+1) straight on. Even though the last twelve months have gone by, it feels like just yesterday I was indulging in jello shots and margaritas. For my 21st. Because just yesterday I was indulging in jello shots and margaritas.

  • Web Spy: When Parents Text

    Web Spy: When Parents Text

    We all know parents aren’t exactly pros when it comes to dealing with new technology. It took my mom two years to learn how to watch a recorded show off the DVR (I’m pretty sure she still doesn’t know how to record anything), and my dad constantly refers to Facebook as “Face-Space”. I’m actually pretty amazed that either of them even knows how to send a text!

  • What’s the Dumbest Tech Questions Your Parents Have Ever Asked?

    What’s the Dumbest Tech Questions Your Parents Have Ever Asked?

    Parents sure can be dumb when it comes to technology. They’re like a step above your toddler cousin putting bagels in the DVD player.

  • Top 5 Modern College Norms Parents Will Never Understand

    Top 5 Modern College Norms Parents Will Never Understand

    As a college student I’ve learned that there are just some things that parents will never understand. And I’m not talking about how to change their profile pictures or how to DVR The Closer. I’m talking about the way life is now, the way we college students communicate and socialize and hook-up.

  • The Dos and Don’ts of Thanksgiving Break

    The Dos and Don’ts of Thanksgiving Break

    It’s finally here, Thanksgiving. The only American holiday that goes hand and hand with elastic waistband pants. Just a few months ago your parents dropped you off at school with advice like “study hard” and “don’t drink anything out of a trashcan.” Since then, you’ve basked in the glory of freedom and the scent of stale beer and your first walk of shame.

  • 5 Things to Know About Being Home for Thanksgiving [CONTEST]

    5 Things to Know About Being Home for Thanksgiving [CONTEST]

    It’s about that time again. Right as you’ve settled into campus life quite comfortably, you’re packing your backs and buying mini-bottles in preparation for a Thanksgiving spent with your sometimes-endearing, usually well-meaning family. Brace yourselves, because the transition back isn’t as easy as the one you made upon leaving home.

  • 10 Things You’re Never Too Old To Do

    10 Things You’re Never Too Old To Do

    When you’re little you always hear “Wait till your older” from piercing your ears to getting your first pair of heels to sending your very first sext. However, once you hit adolescence, it seems like you’re constantly told to “act your age” or that you’re “too old for” something. Just because you’re in college doesn’t mean you can’t bask in things from the past … Here are ten things you are definitely never too old for.

  • Momma Madonna Forgot Her Age Again

    Momma Madonna Forgot Her Age Again

    Our mothers may not always have the soundest judgment in situations regarding appropriate behavior, like when they think chain e-mail jokes are actually funny and they think flipping through family photo albums with your friends is an enjoyable activity for all. Note: they’re not. Seriously.

  • Zac Bissonnette Explains How To Get Through College Debt-Free

    Zac Bissonnette Explains How To Get Through College Debt-Free

    Whether you’re a first year student or heading back to campus for yet another year of academics and parties, there is indisputably one book you need to bring along with you: Debt-Free U: How I Paid for An Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents, by Zac Bissonnette.

  • There Are Some Things You Just Shouldn’t Tell The Parentals

    There Are Some Things You Just Shouldn’t Tell The Parentals

    It happens to everyone: the inevitable drunk dial to your parents. I’d like to say it’s a freshman mistake, but like the aftereffects of Jungle Juice, it’s a problem that keeps coming up. Eventually Mom accepts that you’re a Thursday night binge drinker and Dad realizes all that Vitamin Water isn’t being consumed at the gym.