College v2
Back to school, old (but still usefull) CV2 posts
As you can tell by the lack of posting in the last two days, Temple has begun the fall semester. I imagine most of you have started school already as well. Below are some posts that can help: Book Burro...
Read more »Collegiate Ubiquity gets you drunk, possibly arrested
*wink* *wink* nudge nudge *cough* How to get a fake Id *cough* …You never saw me… [tags]Quick! Run the cops![/tags]
Read more »What college students need, my dream college application: Uber
And now for the dorkiest thing I have ever done… College students have it rough. With loads of productivity software out there, nothing seems to fit. Sure there’s One Note, and online services like Google Calender, but there is no...
Read more »Pimp my TI-83: making calculators fun
The bulky Texas Instruments calculators have been staples of math classes for years. But these timeless beauties can do more than formulate, umm…. formulas, they can act as your new Game Boy. If fact, some creative chaps managed to put...
Read more »How to be an Internet secret agent: clean up your digital dirt!
One of the new things I am reading everywhere is the sudden realization that the pictures you post online will one day come back to haunt you. Colleges such as the University of Virgina even have a slide show warning...
Read more »California slowly, but surely, raising college fees
We’ve discussed how bad New Jersey residents have have it. But California, long known for having some of the lowest in-state tuition in the country, is slowly raising its fees. Governor Schwarzenegger has just asked for higher rates. “Everyone had...
Read more »CV2 now with E-mail subscription
For you old schoolers out there who don’t want a thing to do with RSS, College v2 now has a e-mail subscription service. Sign up here, and the link with always be in the footer under the RSS feed. Or...
Read more »Facebook releases an API, and adds badges
Facebook is beginning to realize that “poking” just isn’t as cool as it used to be, and has enlisted the help of others through the implementation on an API. Whats an API? For the technical version visit Wikipedia. But the...
Read more »Simple tip: how to pick fresh bread
There is no worse feeling: you rummage through your kitchen in the quest to make a delicious sandwich. And then you realize that your bread has those tiny green marks throughout. Looks like mold has gotten the best of your...
Read more »Stu.dicio.us allows for social notetaking, is it worth using?
Stu.dicio.us is a new AJAX driven note taking service that allows the sharing of notes between students. I decided to take Stu.dicio.us for a test drive to see if it should be added to every students toolbox. The main page...
Read more »DormDelicious rocks socks
As I was barely hatching the plan to write a “What to bring to college” post, Andrew over at DormDelicious had already beat me to it. DD has a three part series on what to bring, including what NOT to...
Read more »Three things you shouldn’t bring to college
We’ve already covered some overlooked items you should take on your trek to college. But there are some things that you might think you’ll need, but really dont. And by “some things” I really mean three. 1. Condoms Now, it...
Read more »I’m moving
Hello all, just wanted to say I am in the process of moving into a new apartment and won’t be able to post to College v2 until Wed. Hopefully the Verizon stuff comes before then…
Read more »Eight often overlooked things you need to pack for college
So you’ve been accepted to your University of choice. Awesome. Now comes the fun part, leaving home and assembling a living space that you have always wanted. Do you want the ‘fridge with in range of your bed? So be...
Read more »NJ worst for college, Flordia best. How’s your state?
According to the New York Times, my great home state of New Jersey loses more residents to out of state colleges than any other. Being a resident, I can tell you that New Jersey offers the worse in-state tuition discounts...
Read more »When in college, tell your mom to shut up
Have you ever known “that kid”? The one who can’t make a major choice with our first consulting dear old Mom and Dad. Or perhaps whenever they must speak to an adult, the parent will speak for the child. According...
Read more »iPod: turns out it can save your life
Old story, but worth a mention. This 17-year-old was struck by lightning and has burn marks tracing where he was wearing the iPod. The Denver Post article. One Boing Boing reader even beleived the iPod bypasses the current from his...
Read more »Campus Dirt – how does your school stack up?
Campus Dirt is a relatively new service offering to tell what colleges are “really” like. They accomplish this by polling current and former students and compiling their answers into polls. Although I’ve only attended one college – Temple University –...
Read more »New Ad policy – What’s the deal with affiliate links?
I know most of you reading this may not care, but I think it is important to be transparent with my readers. I am going to begin using affiliate links in my posts so help generate some income for College...
Read more »Facebook is giving away iTunes songs here’s how to get them
Those chummy fellows at Facebook are giving away 10 million free iTunes music samplers. The promotion is part of a back to school drive to remind college students that Apple’s iPod and Facebook occupy 95% of all student time. So...
Read more »Coastr – MySpace for beer
Hello internet, its Sean. Please stop removing “e’s” to be trendy and “Web 2.0.” Thanks. Now that we have that out of the way, Coastr is social networking on the premise of cataloging beers. Beer, of course, is an essential...
Read more »Brand new layout! College v2 3.0
If you are reading this in an RSS reader, you may want to click through for this one. As you can see, College V2 has received a major update. I wish I could claim responsibility for this one, but it’s...
Read more »How to get (nearly) free stuff, from eBay.
Inspired by Get Rich Slowly: If you’re going away to college, no doubt you are looking for odds and ends like toasters and microwaves. Things that may not be insanely expensive, but can add up. So what are the best...
Read more »The full DoD report – spying on college students.
As promised, here is the entire report issued by the Department of Defense. It includes the text of several students’ e-mails that the DoD considers “potential terrorist activity.” To clarify my two former posts, it is the DoD that is...
Read more »Facebook trick – tiled friends
Keith of desideratum has a nice posting about a “hidden” facebook feature – tiled friends. How do you do it? To quote Keith: Go to your Facebook home (i.e. http://*.facebook.com/home.php). Click on the My Friends link in the left nav...
Read more »NSA spying on college students and what you can do about it- pt 2
I have recently put the plans in motion to obtain the report that The Chronicle used for their article about spying on college kids. Hopefully soon we can have the details.
Read more »NSA spying on college students and what you can do about it
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Department of Defense monitored e-mail messages from college students who were planning protests against the war in Iraq and against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gay and lesbian members...
Read more »Wanted: A designer
I’m look for a blog designer to overhaul College v2. Drop a me an email at scblanda@gmail.com if you are interested. I would prefer a fellow college student, but I’m not picky at all.
Read more »Reason #476 the iPod must be stopped
Its offical the iPod needs to be stopped. According to a recent survey the iPod is more “in” then beer. First of all, what kind of kids did CNN interview? And second, who born after 1980 says “in”? Nearly three...
Read more »Dishes = evil
Lifehacker had a nice bit about easy ways to do your dishes that was perfect for any dorm dweller. I know me and my 5 roomies had many a fight over who used what dish and when. Do yourself a...
Read more »College 101: Brendon Mendelson from The Brendon Show guest entry
Brendon Mendelson of The Brandon Show offers some tips on emailing your professors. I had a similiar (not as funny) entry a while back. Enjoy, and be sure to head on over to The Brendon Show for a daily dose...
Read more »College v2 mentioned in magazine article!
A while back I was interviewed by Karine Joly of University Business magazine about RSS feeds. CV2 got a whole paragraph. Whoever told Ms. Joly about the site, thanks!. A scan of the page is at the end of the...
Read more »How to get a Heads Up Display (HUD) in your car for 5 cents
While doing a bit of traveling recently, I printed out some directions curteousy of Yahoo! Maps and placed them on the passanger seat. I found that looking over while driving probably wasn’t the safest option. I then decided what my...
Read more »The coolest way to open a beer
This guy opens a beer bottle with another bottle. Pimp. via Boing Boing [tags]beer[/tags]
Read more »5 (+1) Windows short cuts I wish I had known
I have been recently doing a lot of works on Macs at my job and was amazed at some of the cool things OS X can do (the whole F9 thing blows my mind – I wish I was kidding)....
Read more »Insidefacebook: so well named a cute title to this post is impossible
I just discovered a neat little blog entitled Insidefacebook that keeps abreast of all of the recent news related to everyone’s favorite social networking site. While the site focuses more on the business side of Facebook rather than the actual...
Read more »College 101: If you are going to be a smut, be a smut off camera
As mentioned in some former posts (links below) college students live increasingly digital lives, taking pictures of their nights out and posting them on Facebook or Flickr. Well, the secret is out and employers are beginging to Google their applicants. ...
Read more »AHHH LINUX!
While trying to install Linux on my computer I managed to screw up the whole thing. More posts when I fix it.
Read more »College 101: guest entry from Ramit of ‘I Will Teach You to be Rich’
Ramit of “I Will Teach You to be Rich” recommended an article from his site to be in our College 101 series. Ramit blogs about being an entrepreneur while teaching his readers about financial savvy. His post “On Greed and...
Read more »College 101: Commuting
I’ve seen it happen to the best of us. We get all excited about going to college and living on campus. A party down the street from your dorm every night? Awesome! … Until you get the bill. Then, you...
Read more »Get Vista for free
Just like Office, Microsoft is offering the beta version of its next release of Windows (Vista) for free. EDIT: Put link in. [tags]Vista, Windows, Microsoft, beta[/tags]
Read more »College 101: two tips to prevent being a “Super Senior”
The fifth year college student, or “Super Senior” is becoming more and more common these days. I’m pretty sure that, while the reasons vary, most fifth year seniors are where they are because of mistakes they made as Freshman. Whether...
Read more »College v2 introduces a new series: College 101
It’s about that time of year for high school seniors: Proms are wrapping up and so are high school careers. If you are a senior, you’ve probably been accepted to the college of your choice and can’t wait to move...
Read more »Even Ivy Leaguers dislike Ive Leaguers
According to a new CNN article self-injury is rampant among young people particularly Ivy League campuses. [tags]self-injury, Ivy league[/tags]
Read more »How to make a ring tone only young people can hear
In the UK a company has designed an apparatus to keep young people from loitering storefronts and shops. In the old days the only thing detering we whippersnappers was a “Get out of here you kids!” following by a shaking...
Read more »Every timesaving cell phone voicemail command
Below is the follow up to a former post. The table is how to skip right to beep when you get a long winded message, and how to instantly delete a message in your cell phone’s voicemail box. Brand Skip...
Read more »Save $300 from Microsoft
Microsoft is making the beta version of Office 2007 downloadable for free. These programs are one step away from the final version that often costs around $300. Get them here. [tags]Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office 2007, beta[/tags]
Read more »College V2 … version 2
I have spent the last week or so overhauling the site. Well here it is. The best new feature is the message boards, The Commons. I hope it becomes a place where some of the people that frequent this site...
Read more »How the number 7 saves you 30 seconds a day – a cell phone hack
Have you ever called a friend, gotten their voice mail, and discovered that they were too lazy to record their own message. So you get a semi robotic female voice saying “The number you have dialed x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x is not available...
Read more »Who plays the most WoW?
The WoW (Thats World of Warcraft for you n00bs) blog has a rang of what colleges play the most World of Warcraft. Where does yours rank? Mine is 172nd. [tags]World of Warcraft,WoW[/tags]
Read more »For those of us that dont have iPods…
If you are too broke to afford a new mp3 player but still want music you like on the go, the web offers some help. However by “on the go” I really mean on a computer. So if your stuck...
Read more »You’ve graduated! Now the hard part…
A thread at Ask Metifilter discusses the pros and cons of different types of student loan payments: “Am I making the right choice each month? I don’t see much of a difference between choices … is there anything else I...
Read more »What you think: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 3
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips Part Four: Later this week With the previous two supplements in this eBay series I’ve gotten a bunch of comments from you guys...
Read more »On a wait list? It doesn’t look good.
The College Journal (the college section of the Wall Street Journal) reports that colleges are admitting fewer students from their wait lists. “A number of selective schools say they are taking very few — if any — students from the...
Read more »How to play Super Mario on your Xbox
Ever long for the days of a Super Nintendo or even an Atari 2600? With many thanks to my brother Colin, College V2 has a tutorial on how to “hack†your Xbox to emulate any older system as well as store whole games as “back up.†You can also use your Xbox as a media center. So as you buy your next generation systems don’t let your old Xbox sit there and collect dust, put it to work as a personal video arcade. Read on for the FULL tutorial.
Read more »Get apple stuff on the cheap!
Apple has a program that offers discounts to students buying Apple products (this includes the iPod). Link here. [tags]Apple, iPod, discount[/tags]
Read more »CV2’s RSS feed goes full text, Sean loves acronyms
Just a mini announcement: The RSS feed is full text. No more snippets! The feed is also ad-free. So what are you waiting for? Subscribe to collegev2.com< And, if you are the community-type, Subscribe to Comments for collegev2.com [tags]RSS, comments,...
Read more »You have no excuse for sitting on your bum – How to get a summer job
The Wall Street Journal ran an article detailing that summer job prospects are on the rise. “Landing a summer job, long a rite of passage for teens and college students, became more difficult in recent years, as young people had...
Read more »What doesn’t sell / what to buy: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 2
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips Part Four: Later this week Okay, we already know how to sell things on eBay, but that is only half the battle. People...
Read more »Why older people hate reading our emails, and what to do about it
Ben Bleikamp at CollegeStartup wrote a great post about young people and their tone in email. While we have grown up on hundreds of hours of instant messaging, the older crowd isn’t as inclined to the casualness of the web. “Being...
Read more »Im kinda sorta back!
Hey guys, I’m still in LA but e3 is over (pictures soon). I’ve had a blast playing the new Nintendo Wii and the Playstaion 3. I even met the Diggnation guys and watched them tape. To everyone who commented on...
Read more »Collegev2 on vacation
Hey everyone, I’ll be unable to post this week as I am heading out west to go to e3. I might post pictures/video here so keep an eye out. Good luck with finals and I’ll see you in a week!...
Read more »A beginner’s guide to eBay: Confessions from an eBay store worker – Part 1
Part One: Beginer’s Guide Part Two: What doesn’t sell / what to buy Part Three: Your tips It was fall semester, I had exactly $0 to my name, and I was all out of meals for the week. I needed...
Read more »RSS feeds, share yours.
Rss feeds (What’s an RSS Feed?) are the latest and greatest ways of keeping up with any kind of information. Ever since I started subscribing to feeds I am constantly on the lookout for new and interesting sites. So here...
Read more »Is college counter productive?
I was rereading some of essays from freshman year and I realized something – in some cases my writing ability has actually deteriorated. I do not think this is due to any thing I have been taught in college, but...
Read more »Finals…please kill me.
Cant post…finals crushing me… To all of you in crunch time, turning out essays left and right while studying for finals – I salute you. Good luck to everyone!
Read more »gaming for free
And now for a step away from productivity: VIDEO GAMES. For all my fellow gamers, we hit quite the conundrum when we get to college. We love video games, but cant afford them. Below is a little guide on how...
Read more »Free alternatives for expensive programs – Never buy software again.
It's no secret, the average college student cannot afford common PC programs: Windows - Home Edition: $100 Norton Anti-Virus: $70 Microsoft Office: $329.99 Macromedia Dreamweaver: $376.99 Here are some alternatives if you happen to be buying a brand spanking new computer but dont want to pony up the greenbacks. Or if you have been eyeing up some new software, you may want to consider these alternatives: Click on....
Read more »Want a job with your degree? Too bad.
A great post at iwillteachyoutoberich.com outlines why – if you want a job – college is the wrong place to be. “But one of the stupidest things I heard thrown around was the question of which major would help get...
Read more »What’s your website? Help me create the nets first college network.
I am taking the intial steps of starting a College Blog webring. I’m still hammering out the specifics but if you maintain a site about college, college life, or anything relating to higher education leave a comment or shoot me...
Read more »Google launches calendar
Google has just luanched their long rumored calendar program. While it doesn’t yet link to gmail, the future looks promising. Go poke around at www.google.com/calendar [tags]Google, Calendar, Google Calendar, CL2[/tags]
Read more »10 reasons to switch to Firefox
I noticed in my site stats that 64% of you that visit this site are using IE. Stop! Use Firefox. See why inside....
Read more »250 More ways to get around having a site blocked.
Econsultant.com has a nice list of 250 proxies. Similar to one of my older posts, you can uses these sites and services to circumvent any security features your college may have. via digg.com [tags]proxy[/tags]
Read more »An adsense test
We college kids are a broke bunch, and I’m no exception. Thus that little box to the right containing Google’s adsense. I plan on keeping you guys updated on the results, and if they are favorable, I’ll try to offer...
Read more »Why you should learn HTML, and how to do it – for free
As you can see by the layout of this site, I’m no HTML guru. However I do know my way around HTML code, and aside from validating my geekness knowing HTML can prove to be a positive influence on your...
Read more »Speeding up your computer
If your computer’s start up sound seems to come later and later everytime you boot up, USA Today has a nice little article about how to expedite the start up process. LINK [tags]USA Today, start up[/tags]
Read more »5 things to do when the work piles up…
If your like me, right now the semester is drawing to a close and the work is piling up. As my posting calender will tell, I havent had too much time to do anything but work. But lately I have...
Read more »Make your own luck
How to be luckier (is that a word) Obviously some measure of luck is based on chance, but this experiment and many others have led Wiseman to conclude that a significant portion of one’s good fortune is not random, but...
Read more »Google, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse
In relation to the last post, looks like Google might buy Facebook. [tags]Google, Facebook, the end of the world[/tags]
Read more »Facebook is whoring themselves
According to this Business Week article Facebook is for sale. Asking price? $2 billion I expect some of that money to go to the Facebook Whore memorial fund. [tags]facebook, sale, business week, rich bastards[/tags]
Read more »Never have to check your professor’s web site EVER.
If you have a whole slew of professors that insist on having you check their personal web site feedyes.com has your back. They will make any website into an RSS feed and ping you once it has been updated. That...
Read more »$69 Plane tickets
Air Tram has a student stand by program that allows college students to buy plane tickets for $69. There are a few catches, such as only domestic flights and a carry-on only policy. But if you ever want to get...
Read more »Does your school block facebook? Here’s how to beat it.
Commenter Jana on the Facebook Hack post asked if she could get around her school blocking facebook. If your school blocks a certain site, use Google’s translate feature to get around it. Go to there and “Translate” the site from...
Read more »How to find any database ever
One of my classes has introduced me to a cool new research aid – Complete Planet. Complete planet allows you to search just about any database you can imagine. From the location of dead celebrities to the political contribution of...
Read more »Hacking MySpace
One of the more popular posts on CollegeV2 is the hacking facebook post about greasemonkey scripts that can be used on facebook. I’ve done some searching and below are some scripts that help the overall MySpace experience. Keep in mind,...
Read more »The Facebook cops got me!
I had a fake facebook alias named “Facebook whore” that I used to friend as many random people as possable, my little social expirament. I go to log in one day and I’m told it was shut down. So I...
Read more »The next keyboard wont feature the QWERTY layout
In my surfing I’ve come across a cool idea about how to improve typing efficiency- change the keyboard. Apparently a professor with the last name Dvorak (nothing to do with the Tech TV guy) came up with a better keyboard...
Read more »Get the most out of iTunes playlists
This post describes how to optimize you Itues. Shows how to new and old songs while maximizing all “tags” you can put on your songs. Sorry for the lack of a real update, Economics is the devil. [tags]iTunes, playlist[/tags]
Read more »Integrate Firefox with your homework
A neat little trick to help streamline your bookmarks, your research, and your documents is to make one of your firefox bookmarks a path to one of your documents. Just right click on the bookmark bar and click “New Boomark”....
Read more »8th use for your iPod
This jogger was identified by her iPod. [ABC NEWS, link] [tags]jogging, iPod, engraved[/tags]
Read more »Fitday – a nerds way to lose weight
While many will doubt the exsistence of the freshman 15 all I ask you is this: Did you look at your high school classmates when you got home from spring break? That’s what I thought. Fitday.com offers a nice helping...
Read more »Pimp my iPod – how your iPod could be so much better
Now that spring break is over we should get back to business, and that business is 7 ways to use you iPod other than music. I know some sites have similar lists but include useless tips like “stand on it...
Read more »Spring Break
Just letting you know what you probably have guessed, I’m on spring break and will be updating less frequently. Dont worry, a whole new slew of posts are coming friday and saturday. [tags]im a lazy bum[/tags]
Read more »The most entertaing askMeFi thread ever.
I posted about Metafilter here. But now comes the most entertaining thread ever, about cheating in college/high school. I’m not advocating cheating in anyway, but the inguinity shown by some of these kids shows me that if America’s next generation...
Read more »Friday podcast review – Youth Radio
Today’s podcast is Youth Radio, a fine NPR style podcast with stories told by youths about youths. While not always pertaining to college, the stories are high quality and always engaging. I downloaded “Adjusting to University Life” about a South...
Read more »Find your professor’s old quizzes and answer keys
I have a professor that maintains a webpage where he posts quizzes after we have had them and the answer key, a very convenient service and I’m thankful for it. But the class is Economics and as journalism major, I...
Read more »Thanks to Lifehacker / Micropersuasion
I just checked my site stats and was smacked in the face. Thanks to Lifehacker and Micropersuasion for the links. If you are here for the first time, snoop around and I’m glad you came! :-) [tags]me being a shmuck[/tags]
Read more »Rate my Professor allows students to see future
The time to choose classes is soon upon us, and although a class fitting your time schedule is important so is the enjoyment received from the class. While in high school you could ask around to see who was a...
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