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Her Campus is the #1 online community for college women. Written entirely by the nation’s top college journalists – with 3,000+ contributors and counting – HerCampus.com features national content on Style, Health, Love, Life, and Career supplemented by local content from 200+ campus chapters across the country. In addition, Her Campus offers a daily email newsletter, social media communities, job listings, e-commerce, surveys, giveaways, and scholarships, filling a critical hole in the media marketplace and creating a robust interactive experience for its "collegiettes."

Since joining the Her Campus Team, our team members have been offered jobs and internships with Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Seventeen, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, People, The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, InStyle, Lucky, O magazine, MTV, The Washington Post, Digitas, and Ogilvy, among many others.

Founded by three students while they were undergraduates at Harvard—Stephanie Kaplan ‘10, Windsor Hanger ‘10, and Annie Wang ‘11—Her Campus was a winner in Harvard College’s business plan competition, the i3 Innovation Challenge, in 2009. Since launching in Fall 2009, Her Campus has formed content partnerships with Seventeen magazine, SELF magazine, Glam.com, USA Today and The Huffington Post and worked with clients including Victoria's Secret PINK, Ann Taylor LOFT, New Balance, popchips, Pinkberry, and Intel.

Her Campus has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes.com, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, The Economist, Mashable, CBS MoneyWatch, PRWeek, Business Insider, and on ABC News Now, among others. The Her Campus co-founders have been named to BusinessWeek's 25 Under 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs, Inc. magazine's 30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs, Glamour magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women, and The Boston Globe's 25 Most Stylish Bostonians. In 2011, Her Campus was named a 50K Gold Winner and "Best All-Around Team" in MassChallenge, the world's largest startup competition.

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Blog Entries by Her Campus

4 Golden Rules of Internship Etiquette

(0) Comments | Posted May 9, 2013 | 5:03 PM

After months of editing your resume, relentlessly hunting for internships, and shopping for the perfect interview outfit, you finally landed a summer internship! Whether you've set your sights on the corner cubicle or the tent by an ancient archaeological dig, you'll need to brush...

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How to Start Paying Off Your Student Loans

(0) Comments | Posted May 7, 2013 | 1:13 PM

Long gone are the days when our parents paid their way through college with just a part-time job. Life was good in 1975 -- tuition at Duke University, for instance, was $2,780 per year-- but times have changed: the Soviet Union collapsed, Snooki's pregnant, and college tuition is...

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How to Evaluate Your Job Benefits

(0) Comments | Posted May 7, 2013 | 11:47 AM

Getting a job offer is always exciting, especially if you've just graduated college or are a college senior looking to work full-time. Say goodbye to your classes, and say hello to the work you've always dreamed of doing!

What makes working even more awesome are the benefits and job perks...

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5 Steps to Ace Your Job or Internship Interview

(0) Comments | Posted April 11, 2013 | 12:02 PM

With internship and job applications sent, soon collegiettes will hear back from organizations that were impressed by our qualifications. Interested in learning more about how well you'd fit into their company, potential employers often interview job candidates to connect a person to the pieces of paper -- a résumé and...

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Using Study Drugs to Get Better Grades: Why You Should Think Twice

(2) Comments | Posted April 9, 2013 | 12:38 PM

Between club meetings, sorority mixers, intramural volleyball games, and filling out applications to land that killer summer internship, who even has time to study in college anymore? With such chaotic lives, collegiettes today are typically professional procrastinators. But what's a collegiette to do when it's midnight and she...

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Quick Fixes for 5 Interview Disasters

(0) Comments | Posted April 6, 2013 | 1:13 PM

We've all been there: you arrived late, accidentally spilled coffee on your resume or even broke a heel. Interviews gone wrong are an inevitable part of life and can happen to the best of us (even in our cutest outfits). But even when your interview seems far from being saved,...

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5 Scientifically-Proven Ways to Get Better Grades

(0) Comments | Posted March 21, 2013 | 2:33 PM

Whether you're a pre-collegiette poring over SAT prep books or an upperclassman getting ready to take the GRE, tests can be stressful. But they don't have to be! From food to music to learning styles, there are multitudes of proven ways to do better on every test you take, from...

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The 5 Best Websites to Find Internships

(2) Comments | Posted March 12, 2013 | 2:00 PM

If you're starting to apply for internships, chances are you're feeling a little overwhelmed. With so many internship websites out there vying for your attention, it's difficult to tell which ones are worth a look and which ones aren't. The process of trying to find the right internship...

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Six Best Places to Study Abroad

(0) Comments | Posted March 7, 2013 | 2:54 PM

Picking a destination may be the hardest part of getting ready to study abroad. With 196 countries scattered across the globe, it's hard to pick just one to be your home for a summer, a semester, or even a year. HC is here to help you narrow it...

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How to Follow Up After a Networking Event

(0) Comments | Posted March 5, 2013 | 1:52 PM

So you spent the day at a networking event, mingling with people who work at your dream company or in your dream industry. You showed them how charming and competent you are, exchanged contact information, and everyone went home happy. However, this is only the first step of your journey...

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The 5 Craziest College Majors

(1) Comments | Posted February 25, 2013 | 8:12 PM

In the past, Her Campus has given you the craziest college classes and some of the weirdest college majors. You may have been amazed at how many bizarre academic opportunities exist for collegiettes like you, but believe it or not, there are more! Perhaps you thought...

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Five Courses About Sex and Love

(0) Comments | Posted February 14, 2013 | 4:59 PM

Last semester we gave you a list of HC's Craziest College Classes of Fall 2012. But since it's Valentine's Day, we wanted to give you a list of some courses that focus on the topic that is on most collegiettes' minds this time of the year: love. Check...

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Five Things You Don't Need In Your Dorm Room

(0) Comments | Posted February 8, 2013 | 4:54 PM

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Winter break is wrapping up, and it is time to get back to campus for the spring semester. By now, you are (hopefully) well-rested, well-fed and well-dressed, lugging the spoils of a lovely visit home in your cute duffel bag.

But wait --...

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Two Nonprofits Started by College Students

(0) Comments | Posted February 4, 2013 | 1:46 PM

By Alicia Thomas

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Some college students spend time worrying about what they should wear out to the frat this weekend, what they should eat tomorrow in the dining hall, and how they're ever going to pass their upcoming orgo exam. However, there are a...

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The 6 Most Controversial Student Groups

(2) Comments | Posted December 7, 2012 | 11:10 AM

Welcome to college, where the classes are harder, the parties are crazy and the clubs are wild. And we don't mean the clubs that you dance at on a Saturday night with your best friends (unless we're talking swing dance club) -- we mean student organizations. We've compiled a list...

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A Freshman's Guide to Final Exams

(0) Comments | Posted November 29, 2012 | 3:08 PM

You've almost successfully survived your first semester in college. You've passed your midterms, learned how to battle the "freshman 15" and even how to party at frats without looking like a freshman. But there's still one major rite of passage you haven't overcome yet:...

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The Dangers of Perfectionism: More Than Dotting Your I's and Crossing Your T's

(1) Comments | Posted November 26, 2012 | 5:07 PM

Remember that student in high school who was in every single club photo in the yearbook? She threw herself into three sports teams, the band, the drama club and National Honors Society. On top of her hectic extra-curriculars, this girl maintained a high GPA and graduated with honors. And this...

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Her Story: I Biked From Texas to Alaska to Fight Cancer

(0) Comments | Posted November 19, 2012 | 5:24 PM

I met many people this summer who told me I was crazy: I cycled from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska with 41 other UT Austin students to raise money for cancer research. As you read this, you might think I'm crazy, too -- but let me give you some background...

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The 7 Healthiest College Dining Halls in America

(0) Comments | Posted November 8, 2012 | 1:25 PM

Endless buffets, all-you-can-eat dessert bars and trays of greasy fries and burgers tend to pop into mind when you think of college cafeterias. However, colleges are moving towards healthier and more delicious options for their students. Which schools take the cake (figuratively) for healthy dining? Read on for a look...

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A College Student's Cheat Sheet to Election 2012

(1) Comments | Posted November 1, 2012 | 6:09 PM

With Election Day swiftly approaching, it's becoming more and more essential to make sure you're in-the-know about the candidates and their stances on different issues. Check out our cheat sheet to the election to ensure you're an informed voter when November 6th rolls around.

Presidential Candidates
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