The final weeks of my entire college career are wrapping themselves up quickly.  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I was sitting in my first boys dorm room, trying to decide what I was going to do with all of these brand new opportunities?  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I was eating Cheez-its for dinner, and pulling my first all nighter?  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I slapped my first bag?

Since there is a first time for everything, let me tell you about the senior slide. This week, I didn’t want to do a single thing that pertained to school.  Get this, I even took it upon myself to scroll through a healthy amount of pictures (649, to be exact) tagged of myself on Facebook to dodge homework production. It’s bad. Real bad.

If you’re Senior Slidin’ (or just ready to ditch the books and do something, anything, else), here’s one more thing to get you through the few remaining hours of the week: taking a look at what already happened.

- We are counting down the days (and it feels like it’s taking forever) for Glee to be back in our lives. In case you aren’t excited enough, look at our favorite musical gems brought to you by Schuester and his glee club.

- Lately, I have been obsessed with the sophisticated boyfriend blazer, and we can help you make your own!

- We know Cosmopolitan says the darndest things, but we also discovered Glamour and Maxim have the same silly tendencies in their glossy pages, too.

- We said goodbye to Hannah Montana and contemplated the reasons why Miley is moving out on her own. Read More »

Yesterday was a very sad day for college students around the globe. Thomas Angove, inventor of boxed wine, died at the age of 92. Was it a coincidence that he chose Boxed Wine Wednesday to make his departure? I think not. The man was devoted to his life’s work until the end.

So today, to pay homage to this visionary, we at CollegeCandy are going to pour one out (Franzia Sunset Blush, of course) for Thomas Angove and take a moment to reflect on the contribution he made to society. Boxed wine has changed all of our lives for the better. Here are 5 reasons we will never forget you, Tommy: Read More »

I remember my life before I discovered Franzia and its wine-in-a-box counterparts. I was developing a hunchback from lugging a backpack full of Keystone cans around campus, hopping from dorm party to dorm party. Or, I would spend an arm and a leg on bottles of Bacardi (and the mixers to go with it), only to go through a whole bottle in one night after my friends had passed shots around the room.

At some point during my college career, I discovered that wine is stronger than beer and more consistent than mixed drinks, which are super weak at many stingy bars.

Wine became my go-to drink.

When I moved into an apartment with a fellow wino, we quickly realized that even 1.5 liter bottles of wine went too quickly, so to save gas on packy runs, we became avid boxers.

Boxed wine is completely underrated by many collegiates across the country. In the wine world, Franzia may have a bad rap, but come on; we’re college students. We have no money. We drink a lot. And we aren’t opposed to drinking Dubra when times are tight, so why exclude boxed wine from our list of libations?

In many states, wine comes in 5-liter boxes. That’s FIVE LITERS of booze for about $15. Depending on how much (or how little) you drink, that can easily be split throughout the night between you and your five closest friends, or you can suck it down yourself and not worry about another liquor run for a week or two. If you can’t find a 5-liter box, you’ll still be set with the “smaller” size box, which contains three liters of fermented grapes.

Heaven. Read More »