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		<title>Road construction is a &#8216;no cell phone&#8217; activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>courtneyneal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many roads in Chicago, the one outside my apartment is getting redone, and like many streets, it did not appear to need it much. Luckily enough it is a side street and construction is passing (at least by Chicago standards) quickly and painlessly. On Friday they reached the stage of laying down the new asphalt featuring a road crew of about ten men and two trucks. The typical large gray truck resembling a gravel truck, complete with a raising cargo load, had the job of pouring the black cement while the steam roller followed behind smoothing the tar over the road and flatting the road.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=80&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways To Survive a Communal Bathroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>newzhaikuz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharing your sleeping space with strangers is one thing, especially when those strangers like to heat up curried Indian food at 3 a.m. and incessantly hum Paramore painfully off key through the night (I mean, REALLY. I thought you were a Music major?!). But sharing your showering space? Forget disgusting; the thought itself is legitimately gag-worthy. I may or may not have just regurgitated in my mouth a little.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=82&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to spot a zombie in college</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At DePaul University, we are on the much controversial “trimester system”. Each course is squeezed into a grueling 10 weeks, with an unnecessarily long 6-week winter break from Thanksgiving until well after New Years Day. For reasons no student quite understands, “midterm week” diverges into “midterm 3 weeks” and finals week becomes “finals two weeks”. You do the math. The middle of the term is the 5th week, and if finals begin the 8th week, while midterms are still being administered = nothing short of hell. It is typically around this eighth week of the term that students lose the will to live and “FML” Facebook statuses become prevalent and emphatically “liked”.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=73&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inside scoop on financial aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[College costs over $100,000 in many cases&#8211;and sometimes final college costs hover near the $200,000 mark. So, most people apply for financial aid via FAFSA and/or the CSS Profile. Anyone who has gone through this process will tell you it&#8217;s frustrating, and some will tell you it&#8217;s not fair. Kiplinger&#8217;s had an article about &#8220;11 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=66&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re sponsoring another event!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RealCollegeTour.com is happy to announce that we&#8217;re sponsoring another event in Chicago. The We Are One Foundation is holding an event called &#8220;We Are One Rocks La Grange&#8221; on November 15th from 5pm &#8211; 8pm. The night will include dinner, entertainment from a local high school band (Von Chalant) and a silent auction&#8230; All in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=44&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get paid to promote RealCollegeTour.com!</title>
		<link>http://realcollegetour.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/get-paid-to-promote-realcollegetour-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have 1000+ friends on your facebook and/or a ton of followers on twitter, we'll pay you to promote us to your friends. You'll get $20 for literally 3 minutes of work.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=41&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RealCollegeTour.com invited to judge at non-profit&#8217;s singing audition</title>
		<link>http://realcollegetour.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/realcollegetour-com-invited-to-judge-at-non-profits-singing-audition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 25th, Matt Gabrys, founder of RealCollegeTour.com, was invited to judge in a singing audition for twin rockers <a title="We Are One Foundation, a registered 501(c) nonprofit organization" href="http://www.weareoneonline.org">Rock Star &#38; Super Star</a>. The Star Brothers are putting the finishing touches on their debut album titled "Serenity," which features members from KISS, Heart, the Goo Goo Dolls, and others. The purpose of the album is to raise awareness to teen substance abuse and they hope "Serenity" will be used as a tool in the battle against drug &#38; alcohol abuse. They saved one track on the album for a high school student from the Chicago area who has the right voice and who has enthusiasm for the mission of We Are One.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=37&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty little secrets of college admissions</title>
		<link>http://realcollegetour.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/dirty-little-secrets-of-college-admissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confirming everything that we already know here at RealCollegeTour.com, The Beast interviewed college admissions counselors from across the country and the reporter found that there are various tips and tricks to increasing your chances of getting in.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=35&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loyola, Iowa State, UC-Berkeley, Syracuse, UIC available for download!</title>
		<link>http://realcollegetour.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/loyola-iowa-state-uc-berkeley-syracuse-uic-available-for-download/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following schools are now available for download: Loyola University Chicago Iowa State University University of California &#8211; Berkeley Syracuse University University of Illinois &#8211; Chicago<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=31&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoosiers love to tweet</title>
		<link>http://realcollegetour.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/hoosiers-love-to-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattmatt7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networks have been consuming high school and college students for a few new years now. Well, now colleges are starting official facebook pages and school-sanctioned twitter accounts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realcollegetour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10039535&amp;post=27&amp;subd=realcollegetour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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