Unigo’s Top Sports Schools

On the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, we release our latest top ten - the top sports schools in the United States. These are the universities where football is worshiped - when the school year starts, sure the students are thinking about their studies, partying, etc. - but foremost on their minds are tailgating […]

Unigo’s Top 10 Drinking Colleges

Ah college: the studying, the library, the traditions, the deep conversation, the cafeteria’s fine cuisine—what, that’s not what you “remember”? Was it the partying, the keggers, the frat parties where all hell broke loose? Well, that would likely be the case if you went to one of these top drinking colleges and universities, coast-to-coast, massive-to-small, […]

Where My Girls At?

Most young people look forward to the summer, when they can go to the beach and get that perfect tan or find that summer job so they can finally have that money they’ve been somehow surviving without during the school year, or rolling up to the clubs with the hopes of finding that flavor of […]

Top Ten Brainiest Students Part 2

Some of the final five are among the most expensive in the country – boasting high tuition because of small endowments (one could argue just how brainy is it to pay high tuition?).  One, however, has one of the largest endowments in the United States.  All but one was founded in the 20th century, with […]

Unigo.com’s Top Tens: The Brainiest Students

The top ten brainiest colleges, according to Unigo.com, range in size from small to super small.  Number one on the list is Reed College, Portland’s renowned liberal arts bastion.  The remaining nine schools are sprinkled throughout the United States, from Indiana to Massachusetts.  All but one has fewer than 3,000 students (University of Chicago, number […]

The Color of Love

I’m not one to read a lot of magazines, but the ones I do read are Glamour, Allure, Marie Claire, and the occasional Essence. I really like those magazines because those are the ones that tend to pay particular attention to their readers. I was reading the March issue of Essence this weekend when I […]

Toddlers and Tiaras and Tantrums

My mom told me the other day that when I was a baby, some woman came up to her and told her that she should put me in beauty pageants. She told me this while we were watching this absurd reality show called Toddlers and Tiaras. It’s on TLC and it follows families who have […]

Leonardo DiCaprio Fan: Growing Up Tween

Like most tweens in 1997, I saw Titanic for the first time, and that was enough to turn me into somewhat of a Leonardo DiCaprio fan — you know, making my dad subscribe me to a Leonardo DiCaprio merchandise magazine so that I could make him buy me Leonardo DiCaprio coffee mugs, mouse pads, calendars […]

The Hollywood Hoax

I watch The Bachelor, Big Brother, Survivor, The Real World, American Idol, Project Runway, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Top Chef, to name a few. What’s the common denominator? These are all reality shows. Reality TV has taken television by storm. It all started with The Real World in 1992. I was too […]

To Shop or Not to Shop

Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas season. It is a day that is anticipated by shopaholics and bargain hunters nationwide. It is the Superbowl of shopping, and as we have come to learn, only the tough can survive this adventure. People line up hours, in some cases a day ahead of time to […]

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