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College Life: A Letter To My Freshman Year Self
A friend recently told me that as an incoming college freshman, she thought that “college was going to be all eating Indian food in the dorms.” What does this mean? Frankly, I’m not really sure, but it speaks to the fact that when we come into college, we don’t really have a clue what to expect. As we begin to look back, chicken tikka didn’t have much to do with our experience – but as we started to think about our one-time expectations, we recognized how off-base we had been about so many things four years ago. More »
Lost In Translation: Jealousy Isn’t Allowed In This Hook Up
(Lost in Translation is our weekly column from a college guy’s perspective.)
Jealousy is getting to be a problem in my life. I’ve never been one of those guys who doesn’t understand or appreciate jealousy. You know, the guy who seems all confused when his current hook-up hysterically storms toward her friends huddled around a table of kamikaze shots after seeing you talking with Emily, the girl you hooked up with long before ever meeting your newest squeeze. Actually, I happen to have a very formidable jealous bone myself, and I’ve learned to ignore it. You should too. More »
Slutty DNA Study Provides New Way To Guilt Parents
Do you remember that anti-drug commercial where the little kid blames his dad for his drug use? Of course you do. Practice this refrain for the next time one of your parents tries to give you a lecture about your slutty behavior or shoots you a derisive look: I learned it from YOU, DAD!!
At least that’s my takeaway from this new study that claims stluttiness is part of our DNA. More »
Crushable’s Cat Lady: Secret Stalking Is The Best Stalking
Dear Cat Lady,
OMG OMG OMG I just found out that the boy I like can see EVERY TIME that I’ve visited his online dating profile and he wasn’t even supposed to know that I knew about it in the first place because we go to school together and he TOLD ME HE WAS DATING SOMEONE and that was why he couldn’t go out with me and then I found his profile and then I looked at it like every ten… More »
Gallery: The Worst Relationship Book Covers
I cannot stand self-help books for single women. I find the whole industry built upon our insecurity that we won’t get married and knocked up by the time we’re 30-ish pretty loathsome in general, because they seem to claim one thing (“You’re perfect the way you are!”) while not-so-subtly implying another (“You’re not good enough, that’s why you need our help!”). But mostly, I just hate the covers of dating advice books. More »
25 Tips Before Turning 25
This past Sunday was my 25th birthday. While I don’t think of 25 as old, I definitely think of it as getting older, as I am now closer to 30 than 20.
At this sort of “in-between” moment, I got to thinking about what a difference five years can make.
I’m a completely different person at 25 than I was at 20, and although I’m thankful to have learned from my mistakes, there are a few things I wish I knew then that I know now. Like the following: More »
Dear College Students: You Have a Lot to Learn About Real World Jobs
I love perusing campus blogs, because believe it or not, you darn kids usually are who we look to as trendsetters and taste-makers. I routinely call up my sister and ask her what’s “in” at her college (and yes, it’s Spirit Hoods), and what her class is talking about. So keep up the good work, you guys! Key demographic!
But while we highly encourage blogging about school news, fashion, how much midterms suck, and dating, there is one arena that you guys need to STFU about. That’s right: stop giving “tips” about how other students should handle their first real-world job if you’re still a student. We don’t care if you had a summer internship, or if you took a year off to work abroad. If you’re still in school full-time and on your parents’ insurance plan, then you do not get to write advice to your peers about what to wear on the first day of their post-collegiate job. This counts double for people writing for college sites but are out of school, yet still talk down to their readers while giving terrible advice. It’s ignorant, a tad condescending, but most of all, just plain wrong. Sorry to make examples out of some of you well-meaning individuals, but here are our 5 “favorite” collegiate posts about life after college.
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5 Things We Can’t Stand About Single Men
We just ran across this article on YourTango.com, declaring the five things that men don’t like about single women. The list — which included flakiness, over-the-top independence, biological clock, hypocrisy and treating a pet like a boyfriend — reminded us that these are the exact same things that drive us crazy about single men. Here’s what we mean:
1. Flakiness. The fact that guys find this irritating about women is laughable. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve fallen… More »
The Problem Solver: Dealing With A Guy-Dependent Friend
Welcome to The Problem Solver, Crushable’s crowd-sourced advice column. You submit questions to us via formspring, we’ll give you our two cents here and then you can add advice of your own in the comments below.
This week’s formspring submitted question deals with a girlfriend who doesn’t know her own worth, and who doesn’t seem like she’s always the best sort of friend when a boyfriend is around. We’re talking about that boyfriend-dependent girl. Asked our curious friend:
I feel like… More »
Jessica Simpson wants a rich – I mean, INTELLECTUAL – man
Oh, Jessica Simpson. You make it too easy, sweet cheeks.
In a recent interview with ‘Extra’, Jessica decided that she would do a little matchmaking. FOR HERSELF. Here’s her idea of the perfect guy:
“I definitely love a spiritual man — somebody that is going to always inspire me……I don’t want to get bored. I can bore out pretty easily, so I love intellectual men … people that will always keep me intrigued.”
See what I mean? It’s like shooting ducks in… More »
Why won’t Jennifer Aniston stop talking about her love life?
Jennifer Aniston, who is a well-respected actress in the industry and has a pretty good slew of films under her belt, seems to think that the only way she’s going to stay relevant is to talk about her love life.
Or lack of love life, as it were. Here’s what she said in an interview with Elle magazine for September:
“If I’m the emblem for ‘this is what it looks like to be the lonely girl getting on with her life,’… More »
Drew Barrymore refuses to diet
And add this to the long list of reasons why I love me some Drew Barrymore! The naturally curvaceous star says that she refuses to diet; basically stating that she doesn’t believe in starving herself. Here we go:
“My top beauty and fitness tip is to eat whatever you want in smaller increments but don’t starve yourself to societal pressures. And I love to exercise because it makes me feel good about myself.”
Absolutely! If more people followed this simple advice, we… More »
Sex and the City 2 confirmed for May 28, 2010
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Anywhodles, our favorite fo’ ho’s will be coming back in Sex and the City the Movie 2 on May 28, 2010. I’m guessing that one of them AT LEAST has to be getting some hot flashes or… More »
Jenny McCarthy loves her Botox!
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Comedian (um, kind of? I guess? I’d say she’s more of a Playboy bunny type) Jenny McCarthy was on the Oprah show yesterday, and since she pretty much has nothing else going on in her life, she decided to talk about her love affair with Botox. Oh, she LOVES the Botox! She has her own kit at home! She can’t smile anymore, and she looks embalmed, but SHE LOVES BOTOX!
She also mentioned her long term boyfriend… More »