Archive for the ‘The College Vacation’ Category

Colleges Selling the Harry Potter Experience

Colleges are selling starry-eyed applicants the idea of living in a fantasy world -literally. As if college was not a fantasy world in its own right, recruiters are taking it to a whole new level. “Welcome to the college that best resembles Hogwart’s”, they pitch. Some have gone as far as naming dining halls, libraries [...]

December 8, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: College Fantasy, Living in College Luxury, The College Vacation  No Comments

Top 5 Luxury College Dorms by The Princeton Review

Why not live like a rock star in college? You can always cram some roommates together in an apartment after you graduate and start making your student loan payments. Princeton Review’s The Best 371 Colleges 2010 rates colleges based on dorm comfort. If you want to study in style, here are the top 5 college [...]

August 14, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Living in College Luxury, The College Vacation  No Comments

20/20 College Report

I’ve been trying to tell people this since 2004. American Colleges are over-rated. Sure education is important, but do you really need a $30,000 four-year BA degree?

February 5, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Dissatisfied College Consumers, Student Loan Debt, Success Without College, The College Vacation, Useless Degrees  No Comments

No Need to Leave Campus for Strip Show

Wanna see some skin? You could go to Vegas, St. Tropez, or even your local topless bar. But why travel at all when you could catch a show on your very own college campus? 
Three students at Jacksonville University have been punished for installing a stripper pole in an on-campus apartment and having a pole-dancing [...]

January 17, 2007   Posted in: The College Vacation  No Comments

Liberal Arts –The Intellectual’s Vacation…

I'd like to quote Liberal Arts Dude in his blog about life after a [...]

December 12, 2006   Posted in: The College Vacation  No Comments