HuTubeFlix: Borgia Season 2

Posted 5/01/13 in @hackcollege.com, hutubeflix

Every week, HackCollege scours the interwebs to bring you the best streamable TV shows, documentaries and movies that you may have missed. One of the least celebrated aspects of the age of online television is the fact that for the first time ever, Americans have as much access to foreign shows...

Women Prefer Men with Stubble, Says Beard Study

Gentlemen, put down your razors. If you’re a college-aged man, chances are you’ve found shaving to be a task that’s just a bit too time consuming to fit in the five minutes you have between waking up and going to class. Thankfully, a new study from Australia says that your 10 o’clock shadow may actually ...

Conservative Governors Call for a Limit to Liberal Arts Education

As economic growth continues to be sluggish, leaving record numbers of college graduates unemployed or underemployed, and student loan debt topping $1 trillion for the first time in US history, politicians have continued to call for more emphasis to be placed on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in order to keep ...

8 Easy Foods for College Entertaining

Yes, I understand, sometimes we like to pretend like we’re real adults doing real adult things. We don’t do this by balancing our checkbooks or setting up IRAs. No, we do this by drinking wine out of big kid cups and throwing cocktail parties. You might make your friends wear a nice, respectable outfit (i.e. ...

College Pranks: A Practical Guide

Sometimes in life, you need a little something to get back at someone, or, equally likely, something is really funny to do. Hey, we’re young and in college. Might as well pull some pranks. 1. Accept Karma Karma in college is very, very real: anyone you prank presumably is a friend of yours, and they ...

41% of Recent College Graduates Overqualified for Current Job

A new survey has found that 41 percent of recent college graduates find themselves in work that does not require a college degree. Accenture, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, surveyed 1,005 new workers who graduated in 2011 and 2012 (without going to graduate school) to compare job realities with the expectations of the ...

Fed’s “Dear Colleague Letter” Warns Colleges Not to Retaliate Against Sexual Abuse-Advocates

Last week, the Department of Education sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter to act as a warning to any college or university engaging in retaliatory actions against faculty members or students that have made allegations of civil rights abuse against the school, and promising “appropriate enforcement action” that could include termination of federal financial assistance ...