I will share with you the time-honored secrets of good study habits that my roommates and I have practiced this semester-- so here are 6 ways for you to successfully barely make it out of finals this year:







1. Play OMGPOP. Free multiplayer games with twists on old classics coupled with cute graphics? Addicting, amusing, and you can create private games to invite your friends so that your entire study group can play together. I'm an English nerd at heart, so Letterblox is still my favorite (its a blend of Scrabble and Text Twist), and our apartment has had many Gemmers battles together.

2. Look up the rest of the 2009 in Photos from the Boston Globe. I posted up my favorites from Part 1 and Part 2 yesterday, but here are my favorites from Part 3-- check out the rest of them here.

3. Look up the most expensive desserts you can find. The blog I showed you yesterday (Epicute) posted up a $750 dollar cupcake, pictured below:

“What makes a cupcake worth $750? How about 100 year-old Louis XIII de Remy Martin Cognac, Palmira Single Estate Chocolate from the rare Porcelain Crillo bean, Tahita Gold Vanilla Caviar – the most labor-intensive agricultural crop in the world, and edible gold flakes. Baked and assembled by the executive pastry chef of The Palazzo, Chef Long Nguyen, this royal treat will keep you coming back until you’re broke.”

If you think that one is ridiculous, check out the $1,000 ice cream sundae called the Golden Opulence Sundae served by Serendipity 3 in Manhattan:

5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world’s most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela’s coast. The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It’s sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac.

Look at all these things you, a poor college student, can't have! Instead, we're studying our lives away, in the hopes that one day, just maybe one day, we will have enough cash in our pockets to catch up to our rampant consumerism. Sad, sad day.





4. Check out the end of the internet.





5. Shop online. If you need an invite to Rue La La or Gilt, let me know-- they're both boutique online shopping extravaganzas, and I am sadly unable to afford anything on there. If you want, let me know.





6. Think about what honorary titles you would like to have in your lifetime. This morning, Jen, Gabbie and I had a hour long conversation about titles like Sir and Lady, and I had to Wikipedia the process of becoming a Lady for Gabs. (She has to marry a Knight or Baronet, just so you know). Productive and almost informative!




More tomorrow! Hooray.