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College is a really great place to meet expand your horizons, wear pajama pants for every occasion, and experience living away from your hometown. But for some students, college is just about learning, earning a piece of paper, and passing tests – and a lot of these students are attending classes online, and feeling like they’re missing a piece of the college experience.

Are we students nothing more than a commodity, a wad of cash in the pocket of our colleges and universities who tempt us with promises of prestige and then toss most of us aside in order to foster younger, fresher meat? It’s hard not to see myself this way: as someone who was duped into doing what I love (writing) and having to make incredible sacrifices for a paltry salary. I’m not bitter about it…yet. Then again, I still believe there is hope for me, for my work, and for my inability to not share my passions with others.

I’d been saving my movie-going money for Alice in Wonderland until I read this review in Entertainment Weekly – so today, I’m writing a review of Cop Out. Sorry Alice, but when the last line of a review is, “By the end you’re asking, Where’s the wonder?” I’m pretty disinclined to check out your off-kilter world. Thankfully, Cop Out didn’t disappoint, and the boyfriend and I agreed we were glad we’d opted to see it.

I’m pretty excited to be alive at a time when college students can promote their awesome ideas. While some of us sit idly in class, doing crazily seemly things like take notes on how to divide functions into each other, others, like UC Davis physics student Austin Sendek, are busy trying to change the world one mathematical term at a time.

Okay seriously, is my college degree not actually going to secure my place in the job market? For some of us, graduation of either high school or college is looming, and the path we take next feels like it’s going to make or break who we are and life we’re going to live. With the economic depression and the severe drought of living-wage jobs (heck, of even non-living wage jobs), I’m beginning to feel a bit freaked out about how much money I just spent on my education.

You know that saying, “It was like I was in another country?” Well, it’s darn tootin’ true. College friends, spring break is rapidly approaching and if I’ve learned anything since I took a quick trip across the border to Tijuana, Mexico this weekend, all I can say is: do your reasearch.

As traumatic as coming home to just mom or just dad is to full-fledged adult, according to a recent study by the University of Warwick in England, a divorce isn’t as emotionally traumatic to a college student as it is to a child.

College students weren’t known for their love of the hobby of scrapbooking, until the idea of a shot-book came around. Instead of fluffy pictures of family decorated with frilly paper products and buttons, these adorable shot-books include snapshots of wild university students on the journey to being obliterated on their 21st birthday, often with attempting to imbibe 21 shots to celebrate each year of life. Tasty-delicious, no?

Yes, a gun in the college classroom. Do you think “Oh. My. God” and inch away from the firearm? Or do you resume your notetaking without any concern?

It’s interesting how copying happens on a daily basis at the college level, in research papers, on tests, and even on homework assignments, yet we rarely see mention of it in daily life. But when copying happens in fiction, it becomes four star news.