Professor Gritz, May I Go to the Bathroom?

Only joking. I'm not a professor, you'd have to be insane to let me speak in public! However, I share my opinions on higher education and post-college life over at www.educatednation.com. Sort of like CampusTap!?!? In a way, but a bit more G-rated, ya digggg? Here is my latest post:

America’s Hottest College Girl
Tuesday March 13th 2007, 2:13 pm
Filed under: College, Facebook

The good folks at CollegeHumor.com have teamed up with the most freshest eau de toilet of them all, Tag Bodyspray, to create the “America’s Hottest Girl 2007” bracket.

The 64 girls are broken down into four divisions—North, South, East, West. With a little “research” I determined that there can be more than one girl from a given school. Outrageous! Each girl provides a little portfolio of pics, some of which appear to be professionally done (unfair advantage). They also answer a series of classic “college humor” questions like “What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever eaten?” and “What song do you like to sing in the shower?” Essentially, searching through the brackets, which suffer from horrible load times (harkening back to the old days of looking at “x-rated” content on dial-up connections), is like leafing through a second-rate Maxim, but without the articles about surviving a bear attack or gangsters in Rio de Janeiro who have killed loads of people.

Needless to say, there are a lot of psychology and communications majors, and answers to the question “What is your favorite John Candy movie?” are way off base. Most girls are either incredibly predictable (Cool Runnings) or absurdly “highbrow” (JFK). Armed and Dangerous, ladies? Who is Harry Crumb?!?!

Voters can set up fantasy brackets and potentially win $1000. There is a bit of a flaw in a system where you predict results that you also vote on. I am willing to overlook this, however, because it is also the case for the betting service I hope to start where people can place wagers on reality TV shows like American Idol.

This would be much better if it was on Facebook and started with school-wide contest that then moved on to conference tourneys. If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg should want to return to his days of “Hot or Not” contests, he could probably code those brackets like it’s nothing!

In the end, College Humor has created yet another way for students to be “so college,” helping to spawn a generation of kids who love viral videos of dudes throwing up, get all their sports opinions from Bill Simmons, and think it’s hilarious to quote Anchorman and say, “That’s what she said.”

If forced, I would probably put my money on Ashley from Hofstra, who seems to have really had some nice photo shoots in her day.


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  • Re: Professor Gritz, May I Go to the Bathroom?

    i'm entering that contest asap






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