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Links We Love 12.12.10

  1. Do you find yourself overeating during the holidays? Who doesn’t?! Try these four tips to distract yourself from overeating at the dessert table! [Fit Perez]
  2. Stressed about finals? Turn to your pup! Schools are bringing in four-legged furry friends to calm your nerves! Adorable idea. [CBS Money Watch]
  3. Inspired by The Social Network, BU students create RateBU, similar to Mark Zuckerberg’s original online creation, Facemash, which pits students against each other for other students to judge. [Boston University Quad]
  4. Dating violence is up in the teenage population. After horrifying news like the murder of Yeardley Love at UVA this past spring, this is particularly alarming. [Business Week]
  5. A ranking list no college wants to be on: the colleges with the worst professors! With the increasing rate of college tuition we wonder what these schools will do to combat this extremely bad reputation. [The Huffington Post]
  6. Calling all shopaholics! Need to get your fix all through your college years? Then these are the schools for you. Watch that credit card bill though! [US News & World Report]
  7. Did you ever think it would be possible for you to watch the latest flicks at your house? Legally? (Pirating movies is BAD and doesn’t count!) Find out how you can. BTW: It’s gonna cost you BIG. [Techland]
  8. A tailor’s five tricks to looking slimmer in your clothes! [Cosmpolitian]
  9. It sounds like Jay Leno could be reading this on his late night show! The top ten things you shouldn’t ask your professor before your final. Hilarious! [USA Today College]
  10. The Top 10 biggest Facebook stories of 2010. Everything from the movie to Facebook places. [Time Magazine]
Cara Sprunk has been the Managing Editor of Her Campus since fall 2009. She is a 2010 graduate of Cornell University where she majored in American Studies with a concentration in cultural studies. At Cornell Cara served as the Assistant Editor of Red Letter Daze, the weekend supplement to the Cornell Daily Sun where she also wrote for the news and arts section and blogged about pop culture. In her free time Cara enjoys reading, shopping, going to the movies, exploring and writing.