While reading Michael Wesch's blog this morning (the bomb professor who made the "A Vision of Students Today" video), he talked about the K-State Proud in a post. Some students at Kansas State documented their "Flash Mob of Kindness" in video form and Dr. Wesch shared it on his blog. The video is a good example of what a few hundred bucks, some good ideas and a little bit of free time can result in. Take a look:

The Kansas State Proud is an organization that's raised over $250,000 from students for other struggling students. (That is nuts!) I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this organization in the future.

What did you think of the video? Let us know in the comments!

Last week, Chris and I attended the Intel Youth Rockstars Summit in Santa Clara, California. It was a great time and we hung out with some other established student (or just young) bloggers like Teresa Wu, Nicole Ross, Serena Wu (not related), Fred Zaw, Daniel Brusilovsky and Corvida Raven, to name a few. One of the things we got for attending was a Dell Mini 10 netbook. I don't need the netbook, so why not give it away?

That's where you guys come in. Last November, we launched a site called Discuss Campus. You've probably seen the roundups from time to time on HackCollege. The site has a small tight-knit community constantly answering and asking questions. It's like HackCollege, but only crowd-sourced. (Which means you don't have to put up with our big egos for your daily dose of information intake.)

The cool thing about Discuss Campus is that it's built on a platform that allows us to track the best users. Each question that gets voted up gets you 10 reputation points. If 5 people vote up a post, you get 50 points. Cool. To further jump start activity on the site, we will be giving out the Dell Mini 10 netbook to the first user to legitimately reach 5,000 reputation points. Some people are well on their way to that 5,000 mark.

So this contest will be running until the winner is crowned, which should take a few weeks. Please remember to ask honest, thought-provoking questions. Our moderators will be on the lookout for voting fraud, so please don't try to cheat. So get on over to Discuss Campus and let the race begin!

Update on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Chris Lesinski

As is usual with HackCollege giveaways, you'll have to prove that you're a real student with a .edu email address to win the prize! 

It's been a while since HackCollege has been covered in an old-school newspaper. While you might know lifehacking forwards and backwards, many of the masses remain uneducated. And it's kind of cool to read yourself in something that is published every day on this technology historians refer to as "paper." The Daily Trojan published a piece today about lifehacking in college, something that we claim to know a lot about.

One of the best websites for making college life easier and more enjoyable is the aforementioned Hackcollege.com. Created by Lesinski and Kelly Sutton, two Loyola Marymount University students (the duo now teaches a class on web video distribution there), the site features tips and reviews on things ranging from finding the best espresso machine for the lowest cost or "10 ways to find a lost Word document."

I suppose I can forgive the fact that the Daily Trojan is a USC publication. (Grrrrr.)

How to lifehack your way through college, by Nicholas Slayton [The Daily Trojan]

Read the article and let us know what you think!