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		<title>Cool HACK to suggest our page to ALL your facebook friends in 5 seconds!</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2010/05/16/hack-to-suggest-our-page-to-all-your-facebook-friends-in-5-seconds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 03:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help us get as many fans as we can by suggesting our fan page to all your friends!
With this &#8220;hack,&#8221; it&#8217;ll only take you 5 seconds to suggest the page to ALL your friends with one click!
But first, why should you suggest this page to everyone on your facebook?
-We&#8217;re going to be giving a kickass [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Help us get as many fans as we can by suggesting our fan page to all your friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">With this &#8220;hack,&#8221; it&#8217;ll only take you 5 seconds to suggest the page to ALL your friends with one click!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>But first, why should you suggest this page to everyone on your facebook?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>-We&#8217;re going to be giving a kickass prize this summer, so make sure you follow us!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>-We have sales&#8211;For example, this past Christmas, we were giving our guides away for FREE! (Bet you wish you hadn&#8217;t missed THAT sale!).</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>-This is a cool hack.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s how it works:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">1. Go to our facebook fan page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/RealCollegeTour">http://www.facebook.com/RealCollegeTour</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">2. Click on &#8220;Like&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/LIKE.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-382 alignnone" title="Click on &quot;Like&quot;" src="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/LIKE.png" alt="LIKE Cool HACK to suggest our page to ALL your facebook friends in 5 seconds! college blog" width="324" height="76" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">3. Then click on “Suggest to Friends” on left side below the page logo</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/suggesttofriends.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-378 alignnone" title="Click &quot;Suggest to Friends&quot;" src="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/suggesttofriends.png" alt="suggesttofriends Cool HACK to suggest our page to ALL your facebook friends in 5 seconds! college blog" width="232" height="302" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">4. Suggest to friends box will pop up with the list of your friends to invite</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/suggestBOX.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-379 alignnone" title="Suggest to Friends BOX will pop up" src="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/suggestBOX.png" alt="suggestBOX Cool HACK to suggest our page to ALL your facebook friends in 5 seconds! college blog" width="516" height="435" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Normally you have to manually select each friend one by one. However we will use a script to select all the friends automatically.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">5. Look at the URL at the address bar of your browser</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/url.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-383 alignnone" title="URL" src="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/url.png" alt="url Cool HACK to suggest our page to ALL your facebook friends in 5 seconds! college blog" width="400" height="53" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Delete whatever is in there, and paste the following script in there:</p>
<p><br/><br />
<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="0" style="width: 100%; height: 60px;" src="http://funkyplumbo.com/urljs.html"></iframe></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;">6. Hit <strong>Enter </strong>key on your keyboard, All your friends in the “Suggest to Friends” box will be selected, now hit the “Send invitation” button</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">An invitation will be sent to all you friends asking them to join the fan page. This completes the procedure.</p>
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		<title>The Shower Curtain Incident</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2010/01/26/the-shower-curtain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anecdotes]]></category>
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By Leslee Horner
Blog: &#8220;Waiting for the Click&#8221;  http://lesleehorner.wordpress.com/
Follow Leslee on Twitter: http://twitter.com/lesleeHorner
My sophomore year of college started out just like my freshman year&#8230;living in a dorm room with my friend, Amy.  That second year, however, I played 3rd wheel to Amy&#8217;s boyfriend.  After a couple of weeks of it, I became intolerant and moved into [...]]]></description>
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<p>By <a title="Waiting for the Click" href="http://lesleehorner.wordpress.com/">Leslee Horner</a></p>
<p>Blog: &#8220;Waiting for the Click&#8221;  <a href="http://lesleehorner.wordpress.com/">http://lesleehorner.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p>Follow Leslee on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/lesleeHorner">http://twitter.com/lesleeHorner</a></p>
<p>My sophomore year of college started out just like my freshman year&#8230;living in a dorm room with my friend, Amy.  That second year, however, I played 3rd wheel to Amy&#8217;s boyfriend.  After a couple of weeks of it, I became intolerant and moved into a single room a few floors up.  It was the first time I had truly lived alone and to celebrate my new found privacy I started sleeping topless.  It soon became a &#8220;must&#8221; part of my sleeping ritual&#8230;well at least until the night of the shower curtain.</p>
<p>In my third year of college, Amy and I lived next door to each other in single rooms on our sorority&#8217;s floor in Sanford Hall.  Because our hall was made up completely of sisters, we rarely locked our doors.  The catch though, is if the doors <em>were</em> locked, they only locked from the outside.  If you exited your room and wanted it locked or unlocked you had to be sure to check the knob on the outside.</p>
<p>During Spring Break of that third year of college, I stayed in the dorms while most of my friends went home or to the beach.  As always, I found someone to party with.  Upon returning to the dorms one evening, I was impaired.  Just like every other night I stripped down to my night time uniform and went to sleep.  But seeing as I&#8217;d had a lot to drink I woke up to use the restroom.  Since my room was directly across from the bathroom (and the hall was inhabited by my closest friends) I had made a habit of hopping into the bathroom at night while simply shielding my chest with my arms.  It had never failed me, until this particular night.  I left my dorm room, heard the door slam behind me, and instantly froze.  OH SHIT!  I knew the door was locked.  The door was locked and as far as I knew EVERYONE was gone!  I was standing in the middle of the bathroom, wearing nothing but my panties and completely panicking.  Eventually I noticed the shower curtain and my only solution to being without clothes.  I took it down from the bar and wrapped it around my body.  Once I was fully covered I proceeded to go door to door (at about 3AM) knocking and praying that someone would answer.  Eventually and luckily, one of my sorority sisters (an older sister who rarely partied) came sleepily to her door.  I think by then I was crying and honestly don&#8217;t even remember her reaction.  What I do remember is that her solution to my lack of clothing was to give me a small, satin bathrobe.  I put on the robe, while wishing it was sweatpants and a t-shirt, and she escorted me across campus to the other dorm to get a spare key.  Signing out that key while wearing a silk robe that obviously had nothing under it was almost as embarrassing as going door to door wearing a shower curtain.  But I did get back into my room that night and put on clothes.</p>
<p>Moral of the story is never leave your dorm room without clothes on!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;National Anthem 2.0&#8243; &#8211; A song dedicated to our troops.</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2010/01/20/national-anthem-2-0-a-song-dedicated-to-our-troops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the video for the song &#8220;National Anthem 2.0&#8243; by our friends Rock Star Super Star Project. The song was written with the military, police, and firefighters in mind.
An emotional, heartfelt, and hair-raising modern tribute to The Star-Spangled Banner, thats carried by a voice of unmatched depth and maturity and supported by an awe-inspiring musical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.weareonestore.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NA20DVD"><img class="aligncenter" title="National Anthem 2.0 DVD" src="http://www.weareonestore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/NA20DVD-2T.jpg" alt="National Anthem 2.0 - Rock Star Super Star Project" width="250" height="203" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video for the song &#8220;National Anthem 2.0&#8243; by our friends Rock Star Super Star Project. The song was written with the military, police, and firefighters in mind.</p>
<p>An emotional, heartfelt, and hair-raising modern tribute to The Star-Spangled Banner, thats carried by a voice of unmatched depth and maturity and supported by an awe-inspiring musical arrangement. The ultimate tribute to our National Anthem.</p>
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<p>You can read more about twin brothers Rock Star and Super Star here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rockstarsuperstarproject.com/">www.rockstarsuperstarproject.com/</a></p>
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		<title>The ballad of the college transfer student</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2010/01/10/the-ballad-of-the-college-transfer-student/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjooaanniiee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the outside, we transfer students may look happy and content and adapting well to our new surroundings. Unfortunately, things are never as they seem.
Ten times out of ten, life sucks for the transfer student, but we don&#8217;t know anyone well enough to be consoled. Some things are implied when we tell you we&#8217;re transfer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the outside, we transfer students may look happy and content and adapting well to our new surroundings. Unfortunately, things are never as they seem.</p>
<p>Ten times out of ten, life sucks for the transfer student, but we don&#8217;t know anyone well enough to be consoled. Some things are implied when we tell you we&#8217;re transfer students. Next time, pick our hints up.</p>
<p><strong>When I say I&#8217;m a transfer student, I&#8217;m <em>really</em> saying&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>-I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re interested or not, you&#8217;re going to listen to me compare this school to my old one. It&#8217;s gunna happen.</p>
<p>-I have zero friends and I know no one.</p>
<p>-I was forced to room with a random for the second consecutive year and am not particularly psyched about it.</p>
<p>-I don&#8217;t know where anything is but have too much shame to ask.</p>
<p>-I&#8217;m eternally pissed that none of my credits transferred. Don&#8217;t bring it up.</p>
<p>-I&#8217;m no better than a freshman, but I will go out of my way to prevent them from learning that.</p>
<p>-Please hang out with me.</p>
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		<title>5 Holiday Survival Tips: College Edition</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2009/12/25/holiday-survival-guide-college-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessCe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Families are great and all but sometimes they can be a little too much, especially in highly concentrated doses. Here are some tips to make the holiday experience just a little more manageable.

Eggnog: Sure, you may tell crazy aunt Martha she smells like wet dog but at least you will feel good about it. If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Families are great and all but sometimes they can be a little too much, especially in highly concentrated doses. Here are some tips to make the holiday experience just a little more manageable.</p>
<ol>
<li>Eggnog: Sure, you may tell crazy aunt Martha she smells like wet dog but at least you will feel <em>good </em>about it. If you drink just any drink the family may throw around words like <em>alcoholic</em> but if you generously partake in the eggnog then you’re just <em>festive.</em></li>
<li>New hobbies: Tell them that this past semester you really got into meditation and must be left alone for hours to align your chi.</li>
<li>Noise cancellation headphones: Enough said.</li>
<li>Strep: let them know via email/letter/Morse code that you have come down with strep/laryngitis/ any throat condition and have no voice.</li>
<li>Story time: The more terrible college stories they here from you the better you will look. Take the time out to share the stories about your alcoholic roommate or your slutty roommate or even your alcoholic slutty roommate. You will look exponentially better in comparison.</li>
</ol>
<p>Happy Holidays….</p>
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		<title>Chevrolet launches truck into orbit</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2009/12/24/chevrolet-launches-truck-into-orbit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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DETROIT&#8211;General Motors has entered the record books yet again. It is the first automobile maker to send a truck into earth’s orbit.
Early Christmas Eve, GM launched a 2010 Chevy Avalanche—with a boat in tow—from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to our source close to the project, it was a move to convey a [...]]]></description>
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<p>DETROIT&#8211;General Motors has entered the record books yet again. It is the first automobile maker to send a truck into earth’s orbit.</p>
<p>Early Christmas Eve, GM launched a 2010 Chevy Avalanche—with a boat in tow—from NASA&#8217;s<em> </em>Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to our source close to the project, it was a move to convey a message of the car’s dependability and to test the Avalanche’s towing capacity under extreme weather conditions. Tom Wickham, a Communications Manager for six GM manufacturing plants, tweeted  “the truck only needed one full tank of gas to make the trek from the earth into orbit. Now that’s some good gas mileage!”</p>
<p>As soon as the news broke, the president of Toyota Motors, the company behind the Prius, was quoted as saying “Oh crap!” while eating dinner with his family for Toyota’s annual Christmas Party last week. “The fact that we sent one of our trucks into orbit should show our buyers that our brand can hold its own under the toughest conditions,” says Susan Docherty, VP of Sales and Marketing for GM. “If this doesn’t prove to people that we have the toughest cars on earth, then nothing will.”</p>
<p>A team of scientists will be monitoring the truck for the next three weeks, but the final test will come January 6<sup>th</sup>, when the truck is expected to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere without burning up into a million pieces.</p>
<p><img src="http://imgur.com/StcuZ.jpg" alt="Hosted by imgur.com" title="Chevrolet launches truck into orbit fun stuff" /></p>
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		<title>12 Ways to Avoid Talking About Bad Grades</title>
		<link>http://blog.realcollegetour.com/2009/12/20/12-ways-to-avoid-talking-about-bad-grades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjooaanniiee</dc:creator>
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So you&#8217;ve successfully avoided/handled being repeatedly badgered by the inevitable &#8221;How&#8217;s school?&#8221; from all the relatives who provide you with a sole reason to despise all holidays who you don&#8217;t see too often. Congratulations. Now don&#8217;t kill the messenger here, but it gets harder yet. Winter break brings about another question that demands another rapid succession of lies artfully crafted [...]]]></description>
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<div><a href="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/badgrades.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-306" title="Bad Grades in College" src="http://blog.realcollegetour.com/wp-content/uploads/badgrades.jpg" alt="Bad Grades in College" width="150" height="232" /></a></div>
<div>So you&#8217;ve successfully avoided/handled being repeatedly badgered by the inevitable &#8221;How&#8217;s school?&#8221; from all the relatives <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">who provide you with a sole reason to despise all holidays</span> who you don&#8217;t see too often. Congratulations. Now don&#8217;t kill the messenger here, but it gets harder yet. Winter break brings about another question that demands another rapid succession of <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">lies</span> artfully crafted responses. So, what do they want to know this time?</div>
<div><strong>&#8220;How&#8217;d your first semester go?&#8221;</strong></div>
<div>Don&#8217;t lie to yourself (key word: <em>yourself</em>), your grades went down the toilet (all of your grades, thus clogging the metaphorical toilet and creating the horrible mess you&#8217;re in now). The first technique in preventing a discussion regarding grades is easy; deflect the focus to something else, preferably something you can bullshit about and preferably something remotely feasible (as if your relatives would honestly know anyway).</div>
<div><em>&#8220;How&#8217;d your first semester go?&#8221;</em></div>
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<div><em>-&#8221;I made a lot of friends!&#8221;</em></div>
<div><em>-&#8221;Well, I sure know campus like the back of my hand now!&#8221;</em></div>
<div><em>-&#8221;I was homesick at first, but it turned out just fine!&#8221;</em></div>
<div><em>-&#8221;I&#8217;m thinking about joining the ultimate frisbee team!&#8221;</em></div>
<div>Congratulations. The academic focus has been deflected. Now, chances are, not all of your extended family members will be satisfied with your replies. At some point, the wise ass, self-proclaimed spit fire of the family will blurt out over the steaming aspargus, <em>&#8220;Well, ha! Let&#8217;s be serious, hun. <strong>How about them grades??</strong>&#8220;</em> God damnit. Red alert. All eyes on you, DeNiro, make it good&#8230;</div>
<div><strong>1.</strong> &#8220;Well, I learned a lot which is really the most important thing anyway.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>2.</strong> &#8220;Hey wait a minute, no one&#8217;s said anything about my scalloped potatoes! Not bad, huh?&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>3.</strong> &#8220;Not sure. My teachers never gave me my report card or anything, soo&#8230;&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>4.</strong> &#8220;Fun story- a friend of mine almost got kicked out from her bad grades this semester. She really worked so hard too; such an honest, hard worker. Her name? Irrelevant. She is really, really pretty though, got great legs.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>5.</strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, may I be excused? I&#8217;m feeling some explosive diarrhea coming on.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>6.</strong> &#8220;My university doesn&#8217;t actually do grades. They&#8217;re very free-spirited and liberal there. I did, however, get a rainbow in beekeeping 101.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>7.</strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, what? You want some gravy? There you go.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>8.</strong> &#8220;Grades? I just about failed. Oh, ha ha ha! I&#8217;m a regular comedian, huh?!&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>9.</strong> &#8220;Well, in my opinion, I got straight A&#8217;s.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>10.</strong> &#8220;Not great&#8230; I had a life-threatening case of the swine. I was out for 2 and a half months. Do you really not remember that?&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>11.</strong> &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you get the letter I sent you? No? I detailed all about my grades in that letter. That damn postal service.&#8221;</div>
<div><strong>12.</strong> (Pretend to choke on a crescent role. Start sweating, convulsing, and performing the Heimlic maneuver with the back of your chair. Spit the bread wad into the face of the obnoxiously overly curious relative. Glower across the table. Change the subject.)</div>
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		<title>Artsy Fartsy Students Present National Security Threat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Homeland Security’s best efforts, a recent press release from the Pentagon reveals that a domestic army is forming. Their uniform: tight jeans, pea coats, and berets. Their mission: to derail the foundations of popular American media. Their name: Alternative.
While Defense Secretary Kirby Henderson does admit that; “the fighters themselves are not intimidating,” (a typical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite Homeland Security’s best efforts, a recent press release from the Pentagon reveals that a domestic army is forming. Their uniform: tight jeans, pea coats, and berets. Their mission: to derail the foundations of popular American media. Their name: Alternative.</p>
<p>While Defense Secretary Kirby Henderson does admit that; “the fighters themselves are not intimidating,” (a typical soldier has a slender build, 1% body fat, and negligible upper body strength), the “weapons which the movement controls are cause for concern.”</p>
<p>Further research reveals that the large force (about  40% of small liberal arts colleges), is in possession of a large number of W.M.D.s  (Weapons of Mass Dispersion). Notable units in the arsenal include; popular Lemonheads albums, movies featured  at the Sundance Film Festival, and fair trade coffee shops.<br />
Ruth Perret-Goluboff, leader of the movement, told us that; “our goal is to inundate the public with avant garde forms of entertainment which stimulate the senses and soul.” In an effort to combat this threat, Washington has allocated over $40 billion to promote mainstream forms of media. Popular band Nickelback received a portion of such funds. In response to this news, lead singer Chad Kroeger was quoted saying that ;“it’s an honor serve one’s country.” Nickelback is already working hard to promote their newest “American” single; “Look at this Pornograph.”</p>
<p>While current estimates vary as to the fallout this new-wave of resistance will cause, experts are confident that the American way of life will be preserved. Those wanting to avoid threat of conversion by the fighters should avoid  vegan bakeries, stores selling clove cigarettes, and poetry slams.</p>
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		<title>RealCollegeTour.com launches Twitter MicroScholarship Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've created a contest that is giving out $100 microscholarships to ten (10) entrants. Plus, we're making it VERY EASY to enter. It'll probably only take you 30 seconds to submit an entry to win a $100 microscholarship.]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We all know that times are rough. Every dollar counts. This is why we are tinkering with a concept known as &#8220;microscholarships.&#8221; We can&#8217;t say that we created the term, but we hope that other companies will follow in our path and make more microscholarships available to students.</span></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve created a contest that is giving out $100 microscholarships to ten (10) entrants.</p>
<p>Plus, we&#8217;re making it VERY EASY to enter. It&#8217;ll probably only take you 30 seconds to submit an entry to win a $100 microscholarship.<br/><br/><br />
In a nutshell, here&#8217;s HOW IT WORKS:<br />
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1.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a title="Follow RealCollegeTour.com on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/realcollegetour" target="_blank">Follow us</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on Twitter (http://twitter.com/realcollegetour).</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Send us a Tweet telling us why you deserve one of our microscholarships or why you want one of them. It&#8217;ll look something like this:</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><img style="font-weight: bold;" src="http://www.realcollegetour.com/v/vspfiles/images/twitreply.jpg" border="0px" alt="Sample Tweet Submission" align="middle" title="RealCollegeTour.com launches Twitter MicroScholarship Contest college life" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on January 31, 2010. This means your Tweet must be in by then.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. You can Tweet as many submissions as you want.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Entries will be judged on the &#8220;originality&#8221; and the &#8220;entertainment value&#8221; of the Tweet. Make them wise, clever, and/or fun!</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. All  ten (10) Winners will be announced on February 14th, 2010. We&#8217;ll contact the winners via Twitter, so don&#8217;t be a stranger!</span></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t forget to tell all your friends and family about the scholarship!</p>
<p>For more info, <a title="Twitter MicroScholarships" href="http://www.realcollegetour.com/RealCollegeTour_MicroScholarship_Sholarship_Program_s/86.htm">go to the Twitter MicroScholarship Page</a>.</p>
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		<title>Dissecting the inevitable: Teacher Crushes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Maybe it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re forced to sit in a quiet room mindlessly staring at them. Maybe it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re forced by their pay checks to talk to us. No matter the reason, crushes on teachers are largely inevitable. In high school, teacher crushes are harmless; the age gap is too significant to pursue relations and the actual pursuit is [...]]]></description>
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<div>Maybe it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re forced to sit in a quiet room mindlessly staring at them. Maybe it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re forced by their pay checks to talk to us. No matter the reason, <strong>crushes on teachers are largely inevitable</strong>. In high school, teacher crushes are harmless; the age gap is too significant to pursue relations and the actual pursuit is illegal (but hey, <em>those things don&#8217;t matter to everyone!</em>).</div>
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<div><strong>College teacher crushes are a whole different animal: <em>a tall, knowledgeable, prominent cheek-boned, 5&#8242;o&#8217;clock shadowed, legal animal</em></strong>. Having the hots for a college prof is less likely than it is expected. <em>Yeah, it&#8217;s gunna happen</em>.</div>
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<div>Now that you&#8217;re over 18 and are officially an integral part of what we adults classify as the &#8220;real world&#8221; (shockingly dissimilar to MTV&#8217;s definition), anything (and any<em>ONE</em>) goes. This newfound sense of maturity in adulthood challenges us to take advantage of our new freedoms as &#8220;grown-ups&#8221;. That being said, we force ourselves to have crushes on professors because we legally can (even if he has a framed picture of his <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">bitch</span> wife on his desk; he can totally do better anyway).</div>
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<div>As a fellow veteran educator infatuator, I&#8217;m here to ensure that if you find yourself entertaining any of the following thoughts, <strong>you&#8217;re going to be okay</strong>.</div>
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<div><strong>1.</strong> <em>&#8220;My art history professor fought in World War II? That&#8217;s kinda hot.&#8221;</em></div>
<div><strong>2.</strong> <em>&#8220;My poli-sci teacher&#8217;s jowls make him look sort of square-jawed. Niiiice.&#8221;</em></div>
<div><strong>3.</strong> <em>&#8220;I bet back in the 40&#8217;s, my Spanish prof looked just like Enrique Iglesias.&#8221;</em></div>
<div><strong>4.</strong> <em>&#8220;Have you ever seen a man a wield a cane around so sensually? I haven&#8217;t.&#8221;</em></div>
<div><strong>5.</strong> <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be damned if my psych teacher and Jake Gyllenhaal weren&#8217;t separated at birth, even if my psych teacher <strong>is</strong> a woman.&#8221;</em></div>
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