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How To Take the Best Engagement Photos Ever

5/28/2013
  Erin and Jeff Youngren are a husband and wife team based out of San Diego, CA, that photographs weddings and engagements all over the country. Jeff shot his first wedding back in 2005 when he was working as a scientist doing cancer research in the biotech industry (yes - he wore a lab coat and everything!), and he immediately fell in love with weddings. Erin picked up a camera shortly after the two got married in 2006, and not long after they knew that photography was what they wanted to do with their lives.   Their business took off faster than they ever could have imagined as they built an emotional and timeless style of imagery that the couples they photographed hadn’t ever seen before. Since then, weddings have taken the Youngrens across the country and around the world, from the beaches of Costa Rica to the vineyards of Tuscany to the streets of Sydney to photograph some pretty extraordinary weddings and incredible couples. The Youngrens have been featured in everything from The Knot to Exquisite Weddings to Destination I Do and their work regularly appears on Style Me Pretty as one of their Little Black Book members.  

Boston Marathon Bombings: How to Help

4/19/2013

Horrific events like the one we experienced on Marathon Monday here in Boston are almost impossible to understand. Those of us lucky enough to have survived without injury often find ourselves looking for ways to help those less fortunate. There are many fundraising pages that have been posted by the loved ones of the injured. We have compiled them here. If you know of a fundraising page that we missed, please email me at windsor@hercampus.com and we will update our listing. 

GiveForward Boston Marathon Support Page Listings

Fund for Adrienne and Adam

How to Taste Wine The Fun Way

4/9/2013

Note: This post is written for those collegiettes ages 21+.

Waaaaaay back in 2010, Stephanie Annie and I were named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list. While winning the award was pretty freaking baller, one of the best parts was getting to know all of the other awesome startups that won as well. One of my favorite companies on the list is The Second Glass (side note: the day we found out that we won the award, we scooted over to their offices to celebrate). Tyler and Morgan, the founders of the awesome company, set out to create a company that could make wine fun and accessible to youngsters like us. They wanted to help liberate wine tastings from their reputation of being parties for snooty old people.

Four years ago, they launched Wine Riot and I am proud to say that I have gone every year that I was legally allowed entry (I’m now 24 – you do the math). Wine Riot is exactly what it sounds like – a super awesome party with lots and lots (and lots) of wine. In fact, if you go to Wine Riot, you may taste 250 different wines. I use may instead of can here because I’m pretty sure you would die of alcohol poisoning if you tried to taste all 250 wines in one night.

This year, Morgan, Tyler, and the people at Bordeaux wines were awesome enough to hook us up with press passes so that our entire team could go! We hit the floor hard on Saturday night, bouncing from booth to booth, tasting this and that, loving some, hating others. We had an amazing time.

The Hottest College Guy in the World: Our Search for the ULTIMATE Campus Cutie

2/4/2013

 

As the #1 online community for college women with a team of 3,000+ student experts at more than 200 schools spanning the country and overseas, we’d like to think that we know a thing or two about good-looking guys.

Over the past few months, collegiettes swooned over several nominees in our search for The Hottest College Guy in America, The Hottest University Guy in the UK, and The Hottest University Guy in Canada. Ultimately, we separated the men from the boys and only three eligible cuties remained. 

The Starting Candidates

Matt M. – Virginia Commonwealth University, The Hottest College Guy in America Avi R. – McGill University, The Hottest University Guy in Canada Matt S. – Exeter University, The Hottest University Guy in the United Kingdom

 

The Hottest College Guy in the World: WINNER ANNOUNCED

2/4/2013

 

As the #1 online community for college women with a team of 3,000+ student experts at more than 200 schools spanning the country and overseas, we’d like to think that we know a thing or two about good-looking guys.

Over the past few months, collegiettes swooned over several nominees in our search for The Hottest College Guy in America, The Hottest University Guy in the UK, and The Hottest University Guy in Canada. Ultimately, we separated the men from the boys and only three eligible cuties remained. 

The Starting Candidates

I Gave My Mom a Laptop!

2/4/2013

Buying presents is never easy. The main goal, of course, is to make the gift recipient happy. Too often you give someone something only to see that forced smile and hear them emit that oh-so-fake “Thanks! I loooove it!”

For my mom’s birthday I decided to skip all the stress and give her a hands-down, slam-dunk winner of a present. My mom is a super hard working R.N. and is going back to college to finish up her Bachelor’s degree. (Ironic that my mom is a college student now right? I hope she reads Her Campus!). I’m super proud of her and wanted to get her a present that would show her how supportive I am of her decision to go back to school.

I decided that a laptop would do the trick. I found myself googling “Good Laptops for Moms,” “Best Laptops for Women with 4 Children,” “Good Laptops for Adult Students” and other such nonsense.

Through Her Campus I was introduced to the HP Pavillion dm1z with AMD Processor (try saying that three times fast). Not only is the laptop bright red (score!), it’s less than 1 inch thick and is super powerful. It sports a AMD processor which basically means that it’s super fast and will help my mom rock her classes this spring. To top it all off, it retails for <$450.

When she opened it up she was speechless. She actually started crying and almost dropped the computer on the floor when she jumped up to hug me. Best. Reaction. Ever.

VOTE NOW for the Hottest College Guy in the World - The Moment of Truth

1/25/2013

As the #1 online community for college women with a team of 3,000+ student experts at more than 200 schools spanning the country and overseas, we’d like to think that we know a thing or two about good-looking guys.

Over the past few months, collegiettes swooned over several nominees in our search for The Hottest College Guy in America, The Hottest University Guy in the UK, and The Hottest University Guy in Canada. Ultimately, we separated the men from the boys and only three eligible cuties remained. 

The Prizes

In addition to some outstanding HC swag and a personalized trophy (yes, an old school trophy!), the winner will receive a new LAPTOP! Yes, that’s right, the Hottest College Guy in the World will be accessorized with a new HP Pavilion dm1z with AMD Processor.

Over the past week, collegiettes cast their votes in The Elimination Round and waited anxiously to find out who would move on. Regrettably, the journey for one cutie came to an end and The Hottest University Guy in Canada, Avi R. from McGill University, was sent home.

VOTE NOW for the Hottest College Guy in the World - The Elimination Round

1/18/2013

As the #1 online community for college women with a team of 3,000+ student experts at more than 200 schools spanning the country and overseas, we’d like to think that we know a thing or two about good-looking guys.

Over the past few months, collegiettes swooned over several nominees in our search for The Hottest College Guy in America, The Hottest University Guy in the UK, and The Hottest University Guy in Canada. Ultimately, we separated the men from the boys and only three eligible cuties remained. 

The Prizes

In addition to some outstanding HC swag and a personalized trophy (yes, an old school trophy!), the winner will receive a new LAPTOP! Yes, that’s right, the Hottest College Guy in the World will be accessorized with a new HP Pavilion dm1z with AMD Processor.

Over the past week, collegiettes cast their votes in The Elimination Round and waited anxiously to find out who would move on. Regrettably, the journey for one cutie came to an end and The Hottest University Guy in Canada, Avi R. from McGill University, was sent home.

NYE Surprise: ANOTHER FREE LAPTOP! Enter to Win!

12/31/2013

Congratulations to our winner! Check the Deals & Steals homepage to see if you won!

We gave away a super sweet laptop over the weekend and now we're giving away another one! This giveaway will end tomorrow (New Year's Day) at Midnight PST so enter ASAP to win! What better way to kick off 2013??

It's that point in the year when we've been doing a little too much downloading,  uploading, Facebooking, and the like on our laptops and we're starting to feel like we could really use a new one even though we didn't score one for the holidays this year.

Luckily Her Campus has teamed up with HP and AMD to give one lucky reader a new laptop for FREE!

We're giving away one HP Pavilion dm1z with AMD Processor. This laptop is less than 1-inch thick and even with its compact size, it doesn't sacrifice any of the performance. Equipped with 8GB of memory and Beats Audio™, the dm1 is ideal for those who do-it-all and are always on the go (aka collegiettes!).

These start at $454.99, but now you can get yours for free!

Free Laptop Giveaway from HP & Her Campus!

12/30/2012

Congratulations to our winner! Check out our Deals & Steals homepage to see if you won!

It's that point in the year when we've been doing a little too much downloading,  uploading, Facebooking, and the like on our laptops and we're starting to feel like we could really use a new one even though we didn't score one for the holidays this year.

Luckily Her Campus has teamed up with HP and AMD to give one lucky reader a new laptop for FREE!

We're giving away one HP Pavilion dm1z with AMD Processor. This laptop is less than 1-inch thick and even with its compact size, it doesn't sacrifice any of the performance. Equipped with 8GB of memory and Beats Audio™, the dm1 is ideal for those who do-it-all and are always on the go (aka collegiettes!).

These start at $454.99, but now you can get yours for free!

Enter below to win! The winner will be announced on Monday, December 31st on our Deals & Steals Homepage!

Good luck!