There’s nothing greater than looking in your wallet, finding a few singles, and resting assured you’ll have a great night. College is all about $1 pitchers, and spending your laundry money on mixed drinks of bottom-shelf, possibly watered down, liquor. If my idea of fancy is paying that extra guacamole charge at Chipotle, I sure as hell am not shelling out more than a few dollars to get my buzz on, am I right?

But I guess that’s not the case for everyone. Turns out, some students don’t have the luxury of a $10 night out. Check out this list of schools with the most expensive party nights, spit out your $3 cosmo in horror, then take a moment to thank god your school is not included.

Now that Kate’s not around, he has a chance to say something.

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Best and worst schools for a kegger.

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Sandra Bullock looks super fine on the cover of Glamour.

WTF is Joe Jonas doing?

I pored over the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings when I was a senior in high school. How far up could I go, I wondered? What was the most-highly ranked college I could get into?

I mean, I knew I was Harvard-caliber, I just didn’t have the grades– I was above grades! I could have totally gone Ivy-League if I had wanted to, but I chose the route of a small school with a philosophy, a mission (and a respectable ranking).

My freshman year, I ended up at a small liberal arts school that was ranked #30. Not bad, considering it was ranked #25 in terms of selectivity. I figured its teeny endowment brought the main ranking down. I was satisfied, my family was satisfied, my peers were satisfied. I had landed.

But when I got to college, of course, I realized that these rankings meant absolutely nothing. What did I care about my college’s freshman retention or alumni – giving rate? And the insidiously low student to faculty ratio was moot if you were in a crappy class in which none of the other six students talked. I found myself pining for large, anonymous lecture classes. Did I wanted a lower – ranked education?

The old, corny adage rings true over and over again: college is what you make of it. Seriously. All campuses have pretty trees and old buildings. All student bodies have geniuses and idiots. Yale has a dining hall. Podunk University in Mississippi has a dining hall.

And they both have horrible food. It’s all the same. Read More »