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    College Songs -- 10 Tunes to School You on Your Higher Education

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    It's textbook: Songs about university life typically have little to do with academia, unless beer, pizza and romantic conquests can be considered courses of study. With a new academic term just around the corner, we've created an advanced curriculum of songs about the best seven years of our lives.
    'School Spirit'
    Kanye West (2004)
    Assignment: Write a gangsta fiction using the Greek alphabet.

    Grade: B+
    ("This well-dressed student seems destined to be a Big Man on Campus.")
    Read 'School Spirit' Lyrics
    Kanye West
    Jeff Kravitz, FilmMagic
    'College'
    Animal Collective (2004)
    Assignment: In as few words as possible, make a case for taking a "gap year."

    Grade: B-
    ("The intelligence is evident, but I sense a lack of effort.")
    Avey Tare
    Michael Buckner, Getty Images
    'Campus'
    Vampire Weekend (2008)
    Assignment: Walk of Shame or unrequited love? Discuss.

    Bonus points: Define "Oxford comma."

    Grade: A-
    ("Seems like he comes from a fine family.")
    Read 'Campus' Lyrics
    Ezra Koenig
    Skip Bolen, WireImage
    'I Love College'
    Asher Roth (2009)
    Assignment: Choose from the following possible rhymes for the word "champion":
    A. Paean
    B. Kings of Leon
    C. Beer pong

    Grade: D+
    ("The professor feels certain he had a student who submitted similar work a few semesters ago.")
    Read 'I Love College' Lyrics
    Asher Roth
    Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
    'Fraternity'
    Foo Fighters (2000)
    Assignment: For Music Industry 101, explain the value proposition of offering consumers exclusive "B-sides."

    Grade: A-
    ("Some nice independent thinking going on here.")
    Read 'Fraternity' Lyrics
    Dave Grohl
    Scott Harrison, Liaison / Getty Images
    'The Freshmen'
    The Verve Pipe (1996)
    Assignment: Examine the moral dilemmas of abortion and attempted suicide, with a modern-day Romeo and Juliet as your protagonists.

    Grade: B
    ("A bit heavy on the metaphor.")
    Read 'The Freshman' Lyrics
    Brian Vander Ark
    Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images
    'Keg in the Closet'
    Kenny Chesney (2004)
    Assignment: Yes or no: Is there a School of Not-So-Hard Knocks? Explain.

    Grade: C-
    ("A Lambda Chi should recognize a hazing when he hears it.")
    Read 'Keg in the Closet' Lyrics
    Kenny Chesney
    Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images
    'Going Away to College'
    Blink-182 (1999)
    Assignment: Write a story that begins with a high school senior telling her boyfriend, "I'll write you once a week."

    Grade: C+
    ("How did this underachiever manage to get himself accepted?")
    Read 'Going Away to College' Lyrics
    Tom DeLonge
    Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images
    'College'
    Pat Green (2004)
    Assignment: Paraphrase the epic poem 'Keg in the Closet'

    Grade: B
    ("This young man seems like a quick study.")
    Read 'College' Lyrics
    Pat Green
    Giulio Marcocchi, Getty Images
    'A Freshman and a Sophomore'
    Bobby Vinton (1960)
    Assignment: Write a mathematical formula that shows how the age difference between a freshman and a sophomore feels much greater than the age difference "when she's 100 and I'm 99."

    Grade: Fail
    ("Sir, I'm going to have to call campus security.")
    Bobby Vinton
    Redferns
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    junxun3hat 9-05-2010

    Write a mathematical formula that shows how the age difference between a freshman and a sophomore feels much greater than the age difference "when she's 100 and I'm 99."My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at agelessmat e.c om a nice and free place for younger women and older men, or older women and younger men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.

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    junxun3hat 9-05-2010

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