Get Undrunk and Open a Tough Jar with Your Half-Naked Dad - HackCollege Season 3, Episode 8

Chris and Kelly cover a myriad of topics this week, everything from sobering up to new iPhone classes at Vanderbilt. They also check in with Mom and Dad on tips on how to open a tough jar.

Topics this week:

• Digital textbooks will be hitting a few campus bookstores shelves this fall.
• Is Facebook contributing to lower grades?
• iPhone classes are catching on around the country.
• Kelly shows you how to sober up after you get back from a party.
• Mom shows you how to deal with a stubborn jar lid.

Bribe Your Stuff into Your Suitcases for the Summer - HackCollege Season 3, Episode 7

Chris and Kelly are back from spring break this week as they cover filing taxes as a student and how to hack your NCAA March Madness brackets.

Topics this week:

• Chris and Kelly break down Bonnaroo, Sasquatch! and Lollapalooza in this week's Opposable Thumbs.
• Chris chalks up how to bribe your way into a club.
• Kelly talks about the upshots of minimalism as he tries to downsize his lifestyle.

The Valentine's Day Episode - HackCollege Season 3, Episode 2

Chris and Kelly somehow manage to not even bring up Valentine's Day in the week prior to the nerd's dreaded holiday.

Topics this week:

• Blackboard pushes out its latest version and schemes up new ways to destroy the world.
• Students are footing more and more of the bill as tuition increases. Where is all of that money going?
• The Obama administration posts its goals for higher education
• Dad swings by to give you a tip about how to stop a leaking faucet in your dorm room.
• Chris and Kelly tear apart a girl who dropped out of school because of an operating system.

Hello, 2009. You Have Been Waiting - HackCollege Season 3, Episode 1

Chris and Kelly take the year of the Ox and the last year of the aught by storm.

Topics this week:

• Apparently Congress thinks it's business time when it comes to getting rid of the BCS tournament system.
• Schools suck at teaching Web skills, allegedly.
• RIAA chickens out. Students win?
• Kelly covers how to get a job with an in-class presentation.

The Christmas Episode - Season 2 Episode 10

In a special double-length episode, Chris and Kelly are done with the semester and are going over Christmas lists, opposing thumbs and Christmas caroling. This is the last episode of the season, the guys will be back in mid-January! Topics this week:

• The guys review plenty of goodies, including the Peek, the Eye-Fi memory card, the Microsoft Arc Mouse, the Flip Mino HD, the Fly Fusion, the new MacBook Pro and the HP Mini 1000
• They discuss the Princeton endowment confusion.
• Chris and Kelly moan and groan about the lame fbFund winners.
• The guys discover that a public university has banned JuicyCampus.

Sponsors this week:

• Radar.net
• Squarespace