Commando Spotlight: Paul Pelech

Brand Commandos are a team of reliable college students that help brands with surveys, sampling, and social media on college campuses around the country. Paul Pelech is a Brand Commando at Purdue University and enjoys working with companies and helping them understand his peers better. Originally from Greenwood, Indiana, Paul is a junior at Purdue […]

A College Love Triangle to Learn From in music

(Originally titled, “This draft is a mess, just like my love life”) Here I present the typical college love triangle, described by music. First, a boy and girl magically fall in love senior year of high school. Plot twist, the girl is me. It seemed like fate. We met at summer camp as eight year […]

Make Volunteering Work for You While You Work on College

Volunteering. For some, warm memories of stacking ten thousand can goods come to mind. For others, the dread of not putting in enough mandatory service hours in order to graduate is dredged up. But for all of us in college, the word volunteering reminds us that we have a hectic, vulnerable schedule. Between studying, working, […]

Commando Spotlight: Lily Gordon

Being a Brand Commando with Go Commando is a fun way to join a network of over 800 campuses around the US. Ambassadors use the platform to make some money, and enjoy themselves while they’re at it. Lily Gordon is living it up at college on the West Coast. Hailing from Salem, Oregon, she is […]

Brand Marketers: Move on from Millennials—Gen Z Has Arrived

Get ready to shift your marketing strategy in 3…2…1… Still figuring out how to market to Millennials? Don’t look now, but they’re nearly out of college—and Generation Z has just hit campus. Who Is Generation Z? Also known as the iGeneration, the post-Millennials were born between 1995 and 2015. They are the first generation to […]

7 Online Tools That Will Make College Easier

College is hard. Being online is easy. Dictionary.com, Evernote, Google Drive, DropBox–these are definite go-tos for the in-the-know student, but here are seven sites and apps definitely worth a spot on your bookmarks bar or homescreen. 1. EasyBib This site’s primary function is to assist you in creating the most dreaded part of an essay, the […]