Back to School 2010: How to Avoid Real Work in College

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - While you’re enrolled in college, you bloody well better celebrate your newfound reality-free bubble, walled off as you are from maturity and corporate slavery and looming loan debt.

Back to School 2010: How to Gain the Freshman 15

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - Everyone has heard or experienced their fair share of college horror stories: the nymphomaniac roommate, the professor sprung directly from the ninth circle of hell...

Back to School 2010: Decorating & Dressing on a Student Budget

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - If you need a new look for school, go ahead: Pull out your major credit card and head for Abercrombie & Fitch or American Eagle in any local mall.

Back to School 2010: Discovering Uncanny Utah

Digging into Utah’s uncanny appeal to outsiders.

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - When meeting someone new outside of Utah, one of the first questions I generally am asked is, “Are you Mormon?” That often is quickly followed by questions about what is there to do...

Back to School 2010: Looking for Love Online

Clicking your way to true love.

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - With the online revolution kicking down every door, personal information that formerly would have been dragged out of us only after being beaten and injected with Pentothal...

Back to School 2010: Out & Proud on Campus

Gay students discuss Utah's homophobic reputation.

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - Anybody who has attended the Utah Pride Festival, visited Utah’s Pride Center or used the University of Utah’s LGBT Resource Center can attest to the support that is available...

Back to School 2010: Dial a Religion

Opportunities abound to chart a new spiritual path--in Utah, of all places

POSTED // Aug 18,2010 - College years often are the time when students question the belief systems they were raised with. After all, you're already stretching your mind and body, why not your soul?

Back to School 2009

City's Weekly's academic guide to higher (and lower) learning.

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - I retain few great thoughts from my college years: A sociology professor once told my class that our career aspirations were laughable. He debunked our every economic premise...

Fast College Cash

Earning a little scratch doesn't always mean having a boring job.

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - Making a little extra cash is crucial for college. Why not get creative and consider these moneymakers that won’t cramp your schedule...

Seeking Chic

The dorm room can be a place where form and function collide. Or not.

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - An obvious way to create a totally awesome dorm room would be to room with "Super" Dell Schanze. Since this option may not be available or desirable to most students...