This weekend I attended a big football rivalry that doubles as a reunion weekend for my alma mater. Basically, everyone stands in a massive field for six hours drinking heavily and engaging in a seemingly endless stream of 30-second conversations. It’s like speed-dating

Surely you've all heard the rumors on TMZ by now, so let's not beat around the bush: Gradspot.com is back! Paparazzi have been hounding our offices like a pack of wolves, but we’re finally ready to unveil the fruits of our labor: Gradspot 2.0. We’re incredibly excited to invite you to

Laos, a landlocked country in budget-friendly Southeast Asia, boasts one of the best—and cheapest—trails in the region. Basic room and board (low-end guesthouses and three restaurant meals) costs $5 to $10 a day, traveling with friends will cut the price of a hotel room in half, and eating

Between mixers, Toga Parties, and impromptu late night dorm room visits, landing a date in college wasn’t that hard. With available hot young things all around, you may not have felt pressure to wow ’em and zow ’em on a first date. But finding a great date in the real world is a bit more difficult. So when you do

Whether you just moved to New York City or have been living there for a long time, there’s a seemingly unlimited number of places to explore. Of course there’s the cliché hit list: the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc. But then there’s the city’s less-visited B squad

The Revolutionary War wasn’t about liberty, freedom, and all that: it was about rum. Taxes on molasses — which the colonists distilled into rotgut — united the thirteen colonies, giving them the political force to rise against

First dates are like action movies: they all come down to the last five minutes, and then it’s do or die time. While I believe a first date kiss is never allowed, my female counterpart might think otherwise

Many India-bound travelers make a beeline for Rajasthan in the northeast, where fairy tale castles rise out of the desert like mirages and women in flame-colored saris balance pyramids of water pots atop their veiled heads. Romance and chivalry are still alive in this “land of kings,” a place of holy lakes and

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to finally take advantage of having a real kitchen (so long dorm mini-fridge). You haven’t even cut the price tags off your new kitchen gear, but it’s time to take the plunge and throw a grown-up dinner party

Walk through any college campus during a crisp autumn day and it will be full of students in candy-colored fleeces. While these fuzzy, shapeless coats are ideal for the scruffy student, a fleece is less than desirable for us sophisticated post-grads. How to look polished and stay warm this fall? Add a bit of