Tons of companies started out in collegiate dorm rooms on budgets of nothing. And look at them now -- Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- powerhouses of the tech industry. All it takes is a little (or a lot) of ingenuity, hard work, ambition, and perhaps eventually, a bit of venture capital. These 10 startups were built by college students and if you haven’t heard of them yet, keep a look out. ...
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So you have just finished rush, or maybe a really hard exam and you are ready to celebrate with some fantastic eats. Now you are faced with the one question that has dumbfounded man for centuries. The question that has ruined relationships, marriages, and families. What do you want to eat? I know it is hard to utter especially if you are starving college student, but fear not for I am going to help you make that weighty decision. The following is a list of the top ten best college town eats....
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Sorority women of America! We’ve seen a lot of Tumblr pages over the years and we’re seeing an alarming trend. Take an honest look at your chapter’s Tumblr game. Do you see almost all photos of your sisters at the beach, fake posing, and just overall auditioning to be Calvin Klein models? If so, step up your game. Stop perpetuating the stereotypes and start showing more real sorority life. It’s okay, you can fix this. Here are 10 types of photos your chapter should start posting....
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Sororities pride themselves on displays of unity, creativity, and unforgettable memories. There is no better day of the year than bid day to for a chapter to put on a show that meets all three of those criteria. We already shared our list of the 10 Southern Chapters That Won Bid Day – Fall 2016. Here’s a list of 10 sorority chapters up north who won bid day Fall 2016 by going the extra mile to make it a special day for their new members, celebrating unparalleled sisterhoods, having the time of their lives, being comfortable in their own skin, and taking the best pics....
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Sororities are great at many things: hosting campus wide events, coming up with new and interesting t shirt ideas, and of course blowing glitter at cameras. However, the one thing that sororities do best is expand. They do this through recruitment, snapping up eager new freshman, promising and often delivering an amazing and friend-filled college experience. However, sororities also expand in other, more daring ways—one of which is colonizing new chapters. Here are 7 new chapters of 2016 who are poised to do great things....
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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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Only a couple regions to go, but while I expected some gorgeous ladies in the South, West, or Midwest, I was surprised at how well these back-east babes turned out in Fall 2015! Smart AND beautiful, these pledge classes might have put em all to shame....
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You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college.
Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more! However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves....
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There's a headline making the rounds from Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, and it's framing fraternity expansion as some kind of red flag - a sign that the Abolish Greek Life movement is losing ground and that's somehow alarming. I've read it a few times now. And I get what the writers are going for. But I think they're reading the situation backwards.
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I lived off-campus my freshman year in a standard two-bedroom apartment with a roommate I barely knew by May. It was fine. Quiet, actually. I could control my own schedule, cook when I wanted, and nobody was in my business. When I joined a fraternity sophomore year, moving into the chapter house felt like the biggest lifestyle shift of my life - and honestly, it was. But not always in the ways I expected.
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