The HP Freshman 15 Laptop Giveaway
There’s a 15 blog laptop giveaway going on right now! If you didn’t catch us mentioning it on our last two episodes, here it is: HP is giving 15 laptops away through college blogs. Talk about sweet.
HackCollege has one grand prize package to give away and 2 laptop cases to give away.
Each blog has certain dates that we’re supposed to give away our laptops. If you watched our podcast episodes, you will know that we jumped the gun a little bit. We won’t be accepting submissions to our sob story contest until October 22. We will give away the laptop on October 29.
The Grand Prize Package
The grand prize package includes:
- HP Pavilion dv4t series notebook
- HP xb4 Media Docking Station
- HP 500GB Pocket Media Drive
- HP Photosmart C6380 All-in-One
- HP Protect Messenger Bag
The Participating Blogs
- Sep 26 – Oct 3: Poorer Than You
- Sep 28 – Oct 5: Broke-Ass Student
- Sep 30 – Oct 7: Broke Grad Student
- Oct 2 – Oct 9: Study Hacks
- Oct 4 – Oct 11: Cooking for Engineers
- Oct 6 – Oct 13: College Being
- Oct 8 – Oct 15: Paul Stamatiou
- Oct 10 – Oct 17: DormDelicious
- Oct 12 – Oct 19: Student Bloggers
- Oct 14 – Oct 21: Jessica Mah Meets World
- Oct 16 – Oct 23: UNEASYsilence
- Oct 18 – Oct 25: Gomeler.com
- Oct 20 – Oct 27: CampusGrotto
- Oct 22 – Oct 29: Hack College
- Oct 24 – Oct 31: The University Blog
Check them out and support our friends.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at blip.tv in New York City. During his days at Loyola Marymount University , he founded HackCollege. He earned degrees in film production and computer science (and took a fifth year). Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly held some pretty awesome internships throughout college at Automatic Duck , Revision3 and blip.tv. He is quite the weird guy. He sold all of his possessions through his site, Cult of Less . The world apparently cared, along with the BBC, NBC Nightly News, CBC and Der Spiegel. Kelly is also a founder of LayerVault , a simple version control service for designers. Kelly has spoken at a few conferences including South by Southwest , 140conf and Trandmediale . Although he finds the word dirty, Kelly has consulted for many projects including TakePart , a subsidiary of Participant Media ( An Inconvenient Truth , The Cove , Syriana ) and Capture Your Flag . He has also published his very own guide to Berlin. Kelly is @ KellySutton on Twitter. Kelly can be reached at [email protected]
