back to school 2009 Archive

  • Back-to-School: Keeping Tabs on your Mobile Toys

    Back-to-School: Keeping Tabs on your Mobile Toys

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    For all you students out there, we hate to be the bearer of dismal, soul-crushing news, but school starts up again in a few scant weeks (and for some of you, even less than that). Sorry, but soon you'll have to say goodbye to lounging around the house playing Xbox, liquored-up trips down to the shore, and perhaps most tragically, sleeping in until one in the afternoon. Aside from depressing the hell out of most, going Back to School also means spending gobs of money on textbooks and supplies, where most of your hard-earned summer income is bound to go. Hopefully, you've done a little thinking ahead and saved up for a few new gadgets to help ease the transition. If not, well, you've got a few weeks - get cracking! But what if, and you'll have to indulge me here, what if that guy who smells like cats in your Lit Study class happens to like your new phone as much as you do? What if he makes off with it while you're passed out face-first in the complete works of Chaucer? Well, that's where we come in. While we can't mobilize the CrunchGear Hit Squad over every little thing, we have compiled a few ways for you to keep tabs on your new toys.

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  • Back-to-School: Social Improvement Tips from Neil Strauss

    Back-to-School: Social Improvement Tips from Neil Strauss

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    As you settle back into the dorms and sift through syllabi while searching for drink specials from the local pub, you also should put in some time improving your social life. The fall is a great time to lay a solid foundation of dating success on campus. To provide some tips on turbocharging your dating [...]

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  • Back-to-School: Advice I’d give myself if I were going to college right now

    Back-to-School: Advice I’d give myself if I were going to college right now

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve been sitting out this Back-to-School season mostly because I’m so far removed from college and my son is only three so I don’t feel sufficiently informed enough to offer any helpful advice to you all when it comes to gear you need in the dorm. However, some of us are old enough to give [...]

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  • Back-to-school: 10 Things You Should Know About Going To The Bar

    Back-to-school: 10 Things You Should Know About Going To The Bar

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    College is a time to try new things - especially that second or third year, when everyone’s turning 21. Suddenly, a whole new world has opened up - a world of intoxicated semi-public bliss, previously off limits to your nascent self: the world of bars. Bars can be a stupidly intimidating place when you’ve just turned [...]

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  • Back to School: Buying cheap tech stuff

    Back to School: Buying cheap tech stuff

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Back when I was in college - nigh on fifteen years ago - I remember reading a book by John Seabrook about his experience on the Internet. Now I was pretty plugged in back then and I got everything he was talking about. But there was one paragraph where Seabrook went down to the store [...]

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