Brittany Lewis

This time of year is full of holidays, whether it’s Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or every student’s favorite holiday – The First Day of Summer Vacation. Before any of these happen, though, there’s one other holiday to celebrate - Intel’s newly-minted Password Day!

How many of you reading this use the same password your Gmail, Facebook, and YouTube accounts? My guess is the vast majority of you do. I know that I do, or I use simple variations for everything. Not exactly the safest security plan. According to Intel, the average online user has 25 different passwords to remember. The problem with changing your passwords regularly or having different ones for each account is simple: there would just be too many to remember. Right? Wrong! Intel is launching Password Day on May 7 to show everyone how simple it is to have safe, secure, and uncrackable passwords for all of your accounts that are easy to type and remember. But why should you and your friends celebrate Password Day and be advocates for online security? Read on for the 3 common scams that you absolutely want to avoid.

If there is one thing collegiettes need to stock up on in college, it’s underwear. An empty drawer can often be the deciding factor for laundry day (the worst), and finding the perfect pair for an outfit can often be quite a struggle. Regardless of whether you adore Hanky Panky’s or love to buy Hanes in bulk, everyone has their favorites – and their opinions.

That is why Walmart is on the hunt for OU collegiettes that are willing to be interviewed and give their opinions about different types of panties! To participate, you must be able to go to a specific Walmart store and spend approximately one hour with a few other participants providing feedback about your favorite underwear. (If you love Hanes underwear, even better!) The interviews will be videotaped, and will be for the exclusive use of Walmart and its product suppliers. In exchange for your time, you will receive a $100 Walmart gift card! As budget conscious collegiettes, there’s nothing like a little extra cash to kick off a brand new school year and stock up on your favorite essentials.

The two dates and locations where interviews are being held are listed below:

Wed, Aug 29th: Walmart Supercenter, 6100 West Reno Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73127
Thurs, Aug 30th: Walmart Supercenter, 10938 South Memorial Drive, Tulsa, OK 74133

To participate, fill out this form and you will be contacted about your one-hour time slot.

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While there are arguably some pretty awesome things about college life, one of the coolest things is the network you have available at your fingertips. Whether it’s financial support from your university, mentors in the shape of professors, or the plethora of highly intelligent and motivated peers, you will rarely, if ever, find yourself in a position to really delve into what inspires you with such immense resources. This is why college is the perfect time to be an entrepreneur -- whether you’re an undergraduate student or pursuing a post-graduate degree, universities want to invest in smart, motivated people – and they’re not the only ones.

On Tuesday night, I was very lucky to attend the Dell Social Innovation Awards in Austin, Texas.This was the culmination of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, which is a challenge open to students in all fields of study with any social impact innovation (from charitable to for-profit and even blended projects) and in any phase of development (from early ideas to complete operations fully up and running). The awards ceremony itself was fantastic. It was held in the ACL Live theatre in downtown Austin and the keynote speaker was Daniel Epstein, founder of the Unreasonable Institute, an organization you should all check out. It was also great to see apl.de.ap present an award sponsored by his foundation, and also to see him perform!

apl.de.app of Black Eyed Peas performing at the Dell Social Innovation Awards

If you’re a regular reader of Her Campus, you know that one of the best things about our site is our 200 My Campus branches. These branches, founded and run by college students across the country, produce new content on a weekly basis. They provide outlets for college journalists, photographers, public relations gurus and social media mavens to gain real experience. On top of that, they host amazing events and work with national clients on innovative campus programs. They’re running more than their own magazines on campus – they’re creating communities, and that is no small feat.

In the National office, we’ve been very fortunate to participate in some incredible programs, including taking Contiki tours to Europe earlier this winter. We loved every second of it, and recently decided that it’s high time we stopped keeping this experience to ourselves. That is why we are going to send two lucky Campus Correspondents on their very own Contiki trip!

To our Campus Correspondents, this is our way of saying “Thank You” for their talent, ambition, and dedication to their branch as well as Her Campus. They work tirelessly day in and day out to bring their readers fresh new content and embody Her Campus in every way possible. We couldn’t do what we do without them.

After almost two weeks of voting and a combined total of over 30,000 votes for our participating branches,  we are thrilled to announce that the two lucky Campus Correspondents from UT Austin, Bernice Chuang and Kenyatta Giddings,  are the winners of a Contiki trip of a lifetime!