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SUMO Monday MANual: How To Always Be Prepared For A Girl To Spend The Night

Well your night is ending just how you wanted it too. You convinced the girl that you were working on all night to head back to your room with you.  She is ready to go so you head back. All of a sudden the mental image of how you left your room flashes by your eyes. The left over pizza box,...

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Why Sitting In The Back of Class Is Killing Your Grade

Our Friends over at Yourstudentresearch.com were kind enough to pass on some sage advice for you SUMOS. If you have a paper to write, be sure to check them out. You'll spend more time enjoying the college life, and less time in the library. Take a look at the back row (and sometimes even the front...

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Go The Distance Without Breaking Up

According to the most recent study, there are around 4 million college couples in long-distance relationships in the United States and this number is only growing. Long distance is not impossible, and with graduation fast approaching, you may not know where you or your partner’s job will take...

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Four Ways To Make Your Professor Think You Really Care About Their Class

It’s getting close to the end of the semester and there is just one thing standing in the way of you getting the grade you want. The task at hand, acing the 100 question cumulative final. Simple enough right? You wish.  Looking back at the first few weeks, the first few assignments you did but...

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SUMO Monday MANual: How To Tell Your Best Friend His Girlfriend Sucks

Now we think you’d all be lying to yourselves if you have never had a best friend that has dated a girl that is just down right not the right one for him.  And if you still can say no you haven’t after reading this, one, congratulations you are very lucky, and two, your friends have pretty...

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SUMO Monday MANual: How To Always Be A Good Wingman

We would like to first off start by saying thank you for joining us in our first ever SUMO Monday MANual “How To…”. The purpose of this column is for us, two average college Joes, to help give advice and fine tune other average Joes and bros, while preparing them for the most common situations that...

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Five Unexpected Places To Pick Up A Girl

Picking up a girl at bar can be easy, but do you really want to pick up the girl who's always at the bar? They can be fun for awhile, but it usually ends in one of two outcomes: they leave behind something the doctors cant even diagnose, or they rearrange your apartment by throwing...

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Study Says Facebook Does Matter In Hiring Process

We've all heard it before. Numerous professors, advisers, and parents telling us to clean up our Facebook profiles because pontential employers will be checking up on our status updates and profile pics before they hire us. While not every employer may place heavy emphasis or emphasis at all on...

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Avoid Living In Your Parents Basement - Advice For Upcoming Grads

Ever heard the expression, "The world is at your fingertips"? If not, you will at your graduation ceremony, and I'm beginning to feel it was more of an insult to us embarking on this journey then it is true.  Recently, I graduated from college with two bachelor's degrees. I, as well as...

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Top 5 Dorm Room Necessities

Living in a dorm can be frustrating. From the constant noise to obnoxious roommates, dorms are a bitch. Here are five things your should pick up to make your time in the dorm a little more bearable.  1. Beanbag Bed Perfect for small dorm rooms, this giant beanbag...

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