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Kobe Bryant‘s net worth is fitting for one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He entered the NBA directly from high school, and has played for the Lakers his entire career, winning five NBA championships. Bryant is a 17-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He has led the league in scoring twice, and he ranks third on both the league’s all-time regular season scoring and all-time postseason scoring lists. Even today, Forbes has Kobe as the world’s sixth highest paid athlete.  As one of the most successful athletes of a generation, his earnings are on par with that notion– he’s making a $25 million salary in his final NBA season– but how much is Kobe Bryant’s net worth exactly?

Kobe Bryant Net Worth as of 2015: $365 Million

But how did the 13th overall pick from Philadelphia become one of the greatest basketball players of all time? And how did it affect his net worth? We take a look back.

1996

Kobe Byrant was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the -Charlotte Hornets, then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.

1997

Kobe was selected to his first NBA All-Star team, the youngest All Star starter in NBA history. He was also a runner-up for the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Award.

Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

1998

-In 1998, after becoming a full time starter, Kobe signed a 6-year, $70 million contract extension, which kept him with the Lakers until the 2003-04 season.

1999

In 1999, the Lakers hired NBA legend Phil Jackson as their coach, who would coach Kobe to 5 NBA championships

2000 – 2002

During the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons, Kobe Bryant’s Lakers would be NBA champions. With the help of center Shaquille O’Neal, the early 2000’s Lakers teams are considered one of the greatest sports dynasties in history. They would defeat the Indiana Pacers, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the New Jersey Nets, consecutively.

During the 2002 season, Bryant played in 80 games for the first time in  his career, and claimed his first All-Star MVP trophy.

2003

During the 2003 season, problems began to arise in Los Angeles, specifically between All Stars Kobe and Shaq.

Also in 2003, Bryant was accused of sexual assault in Colorado, but the charges were eventually dropped, and a civil suit was settled out of court.

The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case began in July 2003 when the news media reported that the sheriff’s office in Eagle, Colorado had arrested professional basketball player Kobe Bryant in connection with an investigation of a sexual assault complaint filed by a 19-year-old hotel employee. Bryant had checked into The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera, a hotel in Edwards, Colorado, on June 30 in advance of having surgery near there on July 2 under Dr. Richard Steadman. The woman accused Bryant of raping her in his hotel room on July 1, the night before the surgery. Bryant admitted to an adulterous sexual encounter with his accuser, but denied the assault allegation. The case was dropped after Bryant’s accuser refused to testify in the case. A separate civil suit was later filed against Bryant by the woman. This was settled out of court and included Bryant’s publicly apologizing to his accuser, though admitting no guilt on his part.

2004 – 2007

After the Lakers lost the 2004 NBA Finals, O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat, making Kobe the face of the franchise.

After the 2004 season, Kobe signed a 7-year extension with the Lakers, worth more than $136.4 million.

Kobe led the league in scoring during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons. In the 2006 season, Kobe scored a career high 81 points, the second most points scored in a single game in league history.

2008

Kobe was the centerpiece of director Spike Lee’s documentary “Kobe Doin’ Work”, where he used 30 cameras to capture the player’s every move during a game in 2008.

During the 2008 season, Kobe was named the NBA’s MVP. That season, the Lakers would go on to lose the NBA finals to the Boston Celtics.

He was a member of the 2008 USA Olympic Basketball team

2009 – 2010

– Bryant led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the NBA Finals MVP Award on both occasions.

-Nike launched Zoom Kobe IV in 2010; the company’s “lightest basketball shoe ever.”

-On April 2, 2010, Kobe signed a 3-year, $87 million contract extension.

2011 – 2012

In December 2011, Bryant’s net worth took a hit when his wife, Vanessa, 2011 filed for divorce after ten and half years of marriage. Vanessa took possession of the couple’s three mansions in Newport Beach, Calif. that are worth $18.8 million according to property records. The couple had no pre-nup and Vanessa’s divorce settlement could be in the $100-150 million range.

On April 13, 2011, the NBA fined Bryant $100,000 for directing a gay slur at referee Bennie Adams in frustration in the previous day’s game.

2013

On April 10, 2013, Bryant became the first player in NBA history to get 47 points, eight rebounds, five assists, four blocks and three steals in an NBA game.

On April 12, Bryant suffered a torn Achilles tendon against the Golden State Warriors, ending his season. His injury came while he was playing seven consecutive quarters and at least 40 minutes for seven consecutive games. The 34-year-old Bryant was averaging his most minutes (38.6) in six years, and only Portland rookie Damian Lillard was averaging more minutes.

Despite his injury and increasing age, Kobe signed a 2-year, $48.5 milion dollar contract with the Lakers.

Bryant resumed playing on December 8 after missing the season’s first 19 games. On December 17, Bryant matched his season high of 21 points in a 96–92 win over Memphis, but he suffered a lateral tibial plateau fracture in his left knee that was expected to sideline him for six weeks.

2014 – 2015

On March 12, 2014, the Lakers ruled Bryant out for the remainder of the season, citing his need for more rehab and the limited time remaining in the season.

On November 30, 2014, in a 129–122 overtime victory against the Toronto Raptors, Bryant recorded his 20th career triple-double with 31 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds. At age 36, he became the oldest NBA player to ever achieve 30 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists in a game.

On December 14, Bryant became the NBA’s third all-time leading scorer, passing Jordan (32,292) in a 100–94 win against Minnesota.

On January 21, 2015, Bryant suffered a rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder while driving baseline for a two-handed dunk against the New Orleans Pelicans. He underwent season-ending surgery for the injury, and was expected to be sidelined for nine months with a return targeted toward the start of the 2015–16 season.

On November 29, 2015, Bryant announced via The Players’ Tribune that he will be retiring at the end of the season.

Although Kobe Bryant is retiring from basketball, his killer instinct is sure to carry him through his post-NBA career, dominating whatever he sets his mind to next, and continuing to increase his current net worth of $365 million dollars.

Natalie Altieri, a fashion design student and Kappa Kappa Gamma sister at the University of Cincinnati, died this weekend while skiing at Bear Mountain. She was interning at BCBGMAXAZRIA this fall semester and was actually the first UC student to ever have an internship in Singapore.

Here’s the heartfelt obituary that Natalie’s sister, Audrey, wrote on her Facebook page.

My sister, Natalie Altieri, died today in a skiing accident in California. Natalie was such an amazing person and sister. Today I lost my best friend, and I cannot imagine my life without her. My family and I are heartbroken. We truly appreciate your prayers and positive thoughts. Natalie graduated from Jackson High School in 2013, was a student at the University of Cincinnati in the DAAP program (fashion design), and was co-oping with BCBGMAXAZRIA in LA. As we make arrangements, we will communicate them to her friends and family by posting them on Facebook and publishing in the Canton Repository. Feel free to reach out to me or my family if you have any questions. Thank you all for being such a special part of her life.

Natalie skied into a metal stairway around 10:30 AM, and was rushed to the hospital. She died an hour later. While we have no idea what kind of gear Natalie was wearing at the time of the accident, I’d like to take this second to remind everyone to be safe and wear a helmet. Far too many things can wrong on the slopes to risk your life.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Natalie’s friends and family.

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It’s bee a rough few days for adult film star James Deen.

First, there was Stoya – his ex-girlfriend and previous industry colleague – accusing him of raping her. She divulged details on her Twitter account for everyone to see.

Then there was everyone backing her up and coming out with their own stories, which made matters ten times worse.

And now there’s Evil Angel’s founder John Stagliano stating that the prominent adult film company has cut ties with the perfumer.

In light of the recent accusations against James Deen, Evil Angel today has decided not to sell any newly created scenes featuring Deen. While our company presents what is consensual and exploratory about aggressive and rough sex, these accusations are of a nature so contrary to our company values that we feel it necessary to suspend the sales until more information is available.

Former collaborator Tasha Reign also confirmed her decision to recast Deen’s roles in future films.

I’ve done tons of scenes with him, I’ve hung out with him, and I really like him… but I am a feminist before I am a model or pornographer. When a women says that’s happened to her, that’s something we have to take seriously. In my heart I wanted so badly for it to not be real but there are so many accounts.

Starlet Joanna Angel, who came out and supported Stoya on Twitter, is expected to release a story on her own experiences with the defamed performer. She dated Deen for six years, and is scheduled to open up about it on SiriusXM’s The Jason Ellis Show.

Now a fourth accuser has come forward. Wishing only to be referred to as “T.M.,” the former co-star alleged that she was yet another victim of his heinous crimes.

“I’d been drinking with my coworkers and friends, and I wandered up to a party in a suite not really knowing what it was. As soon as I walked [into the party], Deen saw me. He didn’t say anything. He grabbed me in front of the entire party and took me into a side room. I definitely said no, but I was also super scared. There was a crowd of his friends and fans [in the room]. He forced me to [perform oral sex on him] and had sex with me. As soon as he was done, he walked away. I was kind of in shock and I was embarrassed, so I just left, and I didn’t tell anyone. And I didn’t tell the people around me who had seen it that I didn’t want it, because here’s this person who’s important in the industry who’s dating my friend and is involved business-wise with people I worked with. I didn’t want it to affect my career or my friends’ careers. At the time, I also blamed myself. It felt like a weird gray area. And I don’t think anyone there knew that what he was doing wasn’t consensual.”

She says she stayed quiet about it out of fear for losing her job.

“I warned people that I knew about him, and if I ever saw a friend or acquaintance make some sort of ‘James Deen is so dreamy’ post, I would have a private conversation with them about what really happened. But I wasn’t ready to do that publicly, because he was still an important figure in the industry and again, I didn’t want to affect my or my friends’ careers by bringing it to light. He had the audacity once to ask me why I didn’t like him,” she said.

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What’s the easiest way to find out if you’re going to click with someone? According to this new dating site, it’s pretty damn simple: by seeing what they scrolled through on Reddit.

Redddate.com is a new dating service that matches people based on what subreddits they subscribe to. It’s pretty damn awesome considering the majority of dating profiles are complete lies – do you really like to take walks on the beach and devouring entire pizzas afterward? – and photos can be deceiving. AKA I KNOW you just photoshopped on some abs, so don’t f*ck with me.

But what isn’t deceiving is everything you’re looking through on Reddit. Talk about discovering someone’s true colors.

According to Metro, “Redditor C14L created the website after it was dreamt up by another Redditor, TeaStainsAndTobacco.” It’s only a week old, but the site boasts 15,000 sign-ups.

This may be credited to how easy it is to use – just sign in with your Reddit account, make sure you’re subscribed to numerous subreddits, and start going through your matches.

Isn’t love grand?

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Not only do they look ridiculous! Not only do they make you lazier than usual! Not only are they hundreds of dollars! But they can explode and burn you’re house down, too!

According to WGNO,  the 12-year-old son of Louisiana’s Jessica Horne was minding his business, charging his brand new hoverboard (which was purchased on Amazon from a company called Fit Turbo.), when it suddenly started ERUPTING SPARKS AND FLAMES?!?! Says Jessica Horne:

It was like fireworks, the middle part of the board — just ‘poof.’

POOF?!? There are children riding around EVERYWHERE on these things, and they can just go “POOF”?! I had a grudge against these things to begin with: they are the epitome of what’s wrong with 2015 and our generation. It would be one thing if we were talking about those Back To The Future hoverboards that Lexus are currently making blew up: those things are legit. But the last thing these stupid handlebar-less scooters need to be doing is blowing up.

But the story doesn’t stop there. Next, within a matter of minutes, her Lafitte home became a ‘blazing inferno’, destroying everything the family owned. Horne created a GoFundMe page shortly after the fire to raise money for necessary belongings like clothes for her three children.

Thanks, American millennials, your obsession with laziness and refusal to walk like a regular human being burned someones house down. Everyone who owns one of these should feel guilty. Unless you buy one from the link below, then you’re not so bad, because those deals are unbeatable.

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FSU has a ton of things going for them – the sun, the beach, Zoie Burgher – but then, there’s Michelle Roque.

The FSU student and Delta Gamma sorority sister is a kickass athlete, and that’s putting it lightly.

You may remember her from the 2014 Beta Theta Pi flag football tournament at Florida State, where she killed it during a play that quickly went viral. The former high school soccer player and flag football quarterback at North Broward Prep helped lead the team to sweet victory that year.

Let’s reminisce:

Damn. The chick can play some f*cking football, and if that doesn’t have you believing, then you have to check out her highlight reel below.

Michelle, keeping rocking it.

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Kayla-Simone McKelvey, the Kean University graduate pictured above, was arrested for making false threats against Black Lives Matter protests. Sound crazy? That’s because it is. So let’s break it down for you a little bit.

Earlier this month we reported on threats made against the Black Lives Matter protest at Kean University, roughly attended by 100 people. The threats were made from an anonymous Twitter account and were pretty explicit as to what they wanted to do.

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The school took the threats pretty seriously and investigations were made. Well guess what they found.

Investigators discovered that those threats actually came from Kayla, who first attended the protest and then wrote the threats on a library computer:

The Union County prosecutor’s office says McKelvey participated in a Nov. 17 rally on racial issues at Kean and then went to a computer station in a campus library and posted anonymous threats on Twitter against black students. [source]

Kean University had this to say about the news:

“We are saddened to learn that the person allegedly responsible was an active participant in the rally that took place on campus on Tuesday, November 17 and is a former student of Kean. As a diverse academic community, we wholeheartedly respect and support activism, however, no cause or issue gives anyone the right to threaten the safety of others. We hope this information will begin to bring a sense of relief and security to the campus community.”

Kayla is now facing one count of creating false alarms. She is due back in court in two weeks.

Kean University is a public school in New Jersey located in Union and Hillside. There are around 12,000 students.

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A suspicious package was found outside of Penn State University’s Medlar Field and police are currently investigating. Students and faculty were told to steer clear of the area.

According to the school’s paper The Collegian, Porter road has been closed from Curtain to Hastings.

The package was reported around 2:12 p.m.

Stay safe, PSU.

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Most big games launched in time for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend of chaos, but there are two more early gifts under the tree for gamers. A pair of expected blockbusters of the year come out this week in the form of Just Cause 3 on PS4 and Xbox One and the Wii U-exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles X. There is also a duo of last-gen remasters vying for your dollar, in the form of Beyond Two Souls and Deadpool. And handheld players aren’t left out, thanks to Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon on 3DS.

Publishers provided review copies.

Beyond: Two Souls

(PS4, $30, Mature)

Out-there developer Quantic Dream swung for the fences when it created this 2013 genre-bender, starring Ellen Page in a comprehensively motion captured performance as a psychologically tortured young woman who is accompanied and tormented by a ghostly best friend. You skip around through key moments of her life as she struggles through adolescence and young adulthood, using the poltergeist’s powers to get her out of jams, explore dark realms and exact revenge on enemies. The game looked amazing when it came out on the PS3 in 2013, and looks even better thanks to a full-scale overhaul of graphics and sound that brings it up to PS4 standards.

Beyond: Two Souls showed a lot of promise, but frustrated gamers due to its weirdness and frustrating controls. Originally designed as a game that used an app and the PlayStation Move controller, the remake dispenses with those add-ons and cuts to the story, which unfolds more steadily thanks to the option of playing through the game linearly rather than skipping through time periods like the original release. This is a version of the game made better due to user feedback and struggles with sales, and makes good on many of the shortcomings of the original. The cut-rate $30 download is an appropriate price for a two-year-old game, making it worth another look for those who were intrigued by the concept but frustrated with the original execution.

Deadpool

(Xbox One, PS4, $50, Mature)

Boasting some of the funniest writing ever found in a game, the 2013 take on Marvel’s fourth wall-breaking antihero was good for a weekend playthrough. Now it’s back in the form of a current-gen port that comes with a joke of its own in the form of the $50 asking price. With no new modes or graphical upgrades to speak of, this is the same game you can easily find for $10 or less in the bargain bins. Since the new version will doubtlessly show up there once again within a few months, there’s no good reason to spend near-full price on something that doesn’t make any effort to distinguish itself from the original.

It’s tough to bash a game that succeeds so well at what it it attempts. This is a shameless beat-em-up worth playing through to hear the barrage of and game industry and pop culture-parodying one-liners. The gameplay doesn’t live up to the level of excellence of the writing, though, meaning most of the best moments can be found on YouTube. That’s a problem with the game’s design. A few bonus missions exclusive to new-gen would have gone a long way toward justifying the rerelease.

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon

(3DS, $40, Everyone)

Shoehorning the Pokemon concept into a roguelike role-playing game, Nintendo gives 3DS owners a lengthy, endlessly replayable adventure to chew on during the lean cold months. A game for true Pokemon geeks, Super Mystery Dungeon is set in a world populated with nearly 300 cutesy pocke monsters. You crawl through procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot and customize your character’s skillset, equipment and attacks.

Part of length comes from artificial constraints. You need to work for everything you get, with much of the game’s bounties locked up behind experience level gates. Expect to have to grind for hours until you make your way into the heart of the game. In that respect, the game feels a lot like a free-to-play mobile title that encourages you to buy gems to speed things up. Super Mystery Dungeon is nothing close to the quick-hit, instant gratification fare you mostly find on handhelds, and is more of a lifestyle choice. Make the game part of your routine and you will find it gets better as it goes. If you don’t have the patience for the slow burn, you’d best stay away.

Just Cause 3

(Xbox One, PS4, $60, Mature)

A Michael Bay movie in game form, the Just Cause franchise has made a name for itself as a breezy, consequence-free action bonanza that chains one blowout set piece after another. You play as Rico Rodriguez, a Che Guevara-with-a-grapple-gun rabble-rouser who frees an oppressed population from a dictator by unleashing destruction, taking out police and rallying rebels to your cause. From the start, you get the freedom to traverse the island at will, hitching rides on helicopters, swinging from bridges and burning down blocks with down domino effect-style C4 explosions and tumbling buildings.

While Just Cause 3 doesn’t do much to shake up the formula from the first two games, but adds enough new structures, weapons and enemy types to keep things fresh. In a way, it feels like the first two Just Cause games were just dry runs for this one — the best-looking, smoothest-controlling game of the bunch, and the one with the most stuff to mess around with. You can stick to the campaign and plow through the story, but it’s far more entertaining to treat the game as a sandbox and create chaos at your whim, sharing your exploits with friends, who get challenges to top your mayhem. Technically, the game is off to a rough start, with glitches and slow load times that can hopefully be ironed out with an update.

Xenoblade Chronicles X

(Wii U, $60, Teen)

Billed as the largest game of the year in terms of area to cover, this staggering creation is meant for the hardest of hardcore JRPG enthusiasts. The map covers 154 square miles, which is more than Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim combined. Equally overwhelming is the cast of characters, sprawling dialogue trees and the number of weapons and items you can collect and upgrade. You play as a party sent to settle and colonize a foreign planet, working your way from scratch to a pilot of a hulking mech that can traverse miles within seconds.

Unlike its Wii predecessor, one of the best RPGs of last generation, the game tends to plod, proving that bigger isn’t always better. It takes hours to get your bearings, learn the game’s systems and get a handle on fast-travel options, and days to make any sense of the meandering, convoluted story. There’s also a sizable online portion, which lets you combine forces with three other players for Warcraft-style raids. For many gamers, other than software-starved Wii U owners, there is almost too much to grasp, and the game demands too much patience to put you through the learning curve before sinking its teeth into you. Xenoblade Chronicles X is a bold and often brilliant effort, but it’s also a buffet that can be more intimidating than satisfying.

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Miranda Lambert is back on the market and looking better than ever. In case you’re skeptical, this sexy Cosmopolitan shoot is here to prove you wrong.

The sexy country singer proves she’s still got it in a tight, low-cut black dress in the latest issue of the women’s mag. Things get even sexier on the inside, where Lambert slips into an even tighter, lower cut black dress.

Why stray from the money maker?

Alongside her hot photos – which your eye will have a hard time straying from – Lambert talks music, marriage, and her string of lonely nights since making her divorce official. Luckily, we’re here to save the day on the latter.

Check out her hot photos below.

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Tuesday night brought the last chance for college football teams to see where they were in the playoff rankings before the final rankings are announced on Sunday afternoon as the top four teams make the semifinals. The latest rankings didn’t produce too much suspense from last week with the Clemson Tigers remaining in the top spot followed by the Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 2 followed by the Oklahoma Sooners third.

The fourth spot is presently taken up by the Iowa Hawkeyes who will play the team in the No. 5 spot this week in the Big Ten Conference title game in the Michigan State Spartans. The winner of that game is going to make the playoff. Oklahoma won the Big 12 Conference outright last week with their win over Oklahoma State. Clemson will play in the ACC title game against North Carolina while Alabama faces Florida in the SEC title game with both games on Saturday.

It is likely down to those five teams along with the Ohio State Buckeyes now for the four semifinal spots with the Stanford Cardinal needing a win in the Pac-12 title game along with a ton of chaos for them to make the playoff themselves. Houston at No. 19 and No. 22 Temple will play on Saturday with the winner likely becoming the Group of 5 highest-ranked team which would ensure that team a New Year’s Day bowl berth.

Here is a look at the full top 25 in the college football playoff rankings going into the final week of the season.

1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma
4. Iowa
5. Michigan State
6. Ohio State
7. Stanford
8. Notre Dame
9. Florida State
10. North Carolina
11. TCU
12. Baylor
13. Ole Miss
14. Northwestern
15. Michigan
16. Oregon
17. Oklahoma State
18. Florida
19. Houston
20. USC
21. LSU
22. Temple
23. Navy
24. Utah
25. Tennessee

Life After Death Star by the Otaku Gang is a Notorious BIG and Star Wars mashup album hotter than the Tatooine desert in summertime. It perfectly meshes the lyrics of Biggie and some hip hop-ified Star Wars tunes.

The Otaku Gang, as we learned from their Soundcloud page, is a duo of producers comprised of Solar Slim (@SolarSlim) and Richie Branson (@RichieBranson). We’ve never heard of them before but that might be because their day job is to work as indie game developers. That being said, at least one of them does have experience producing music. Solar Slim produced “Homegurl (He Gotta)” for rapper Bone.

We were particularly impressed with “Party N Bullsh*t” “Victory” “Ten Crack Commandments” and “G’s Perspective” but the truth is that they’re all great.

Personally, I never really thought that DJ Dangermouse’s The Grey Album was all that, but Life After Death Star is not that. This mashup has the added bonus of listeners not really expecting much and then being pleasantly surprised. I mean, it’s Biggie and Star Wars. That’s just fun.

Life After Death Star doesn’t just pull tracks from Life After Death, rather some of the Notorious BIG’s biggest hits. We know that Biggie must have been a big Star Wars guy because of the line “Hit em with the force like Obi” from Hypnotize, and we’re pretty sure he would have gotten a kick out of this.

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It’s bad enough that colleges want to charge you a sh*t ton of money for the four years that you’re there, so why would they also charge you an insanely high student application fee to boot?

Some questions may never be answered. But unfortunately U.S. News wants to rub your nose in your empty wallet nonetheless. The site recently compiled a list of schools with the highest student application fees and we’re already feeling a bit nauseous.

Here’s the top ten:

Stanford University – $90
Columbia University – $85
Duke University – $85
Boston University – $80
Dartmouth University – $80
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – $80
University of Southern California – $80
Villanova University – $80
Yale University – $80
Brandeis University – $75

WTF?! Considering it costs about $65,000 a year to go to Stanford, we’re here to deliver school administrators a formal “f*ck you.” HOW MUCH MONEY COULD YOU POSSIBLY NEED?!

According to U.S. News, these fees can pile up pretty quickly, considering how many schools freshmen are applying to these days. In 2013 32% of incoming students applied to seven or more schools. Our bank account just hurts thinking about it.

On the bright side, the average amount that students pay for an application fee is $41 and the most common fee is $50. But still – JUST MAKE IT FREE! JESUS!

Ok, end rant.

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Listen, we get it – the last thing you wanted to do today was get out of bed early and go to class. We feel that every day about pretty much everything! But if there’s one person that can make this morning better, it’s gorgeous model Gigi Hadid.

Hadid’s sexy video marks the second day of LOVE Advent – the first centered around friend Kendall Jenner dressing up like a shark costume and taking a really steamy shower – and we’re pretty happy with their choice. Dressed in lacy lingerie, Hadid just dances around for the entirety of the video, making kissey faces and the camera and periodically flipping her hair around.

Clearly the mag’s got a knack for sultry advent calendars and we can’t wait to see who’s next. Check out the hot video below.

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Three Stanford students (Spencer Savitz, Vienna Harvey, and Niko Alino) created an awesome algorithm that helps people find the best time to start pregaming, with the sole purpose of keeping the users from blacking out. [lead image via Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images]

The project was something that they did for their Interactive Management Science course. We’ve asked Niko to share a link to the actual algorithm so that you could test it out for yourself, but in the meantime here’s their description of the project via YouTube.

The project (correctly) assumes that people will be drinking one drink every ten minutes from the start of the party and aims to keep people away from “short term memory loss.”

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Two 20-year-old men were arrested yesterday in Michigan after physically assaulting a disabled man and videotaping it, then posting the video to the 23-year-old victim’s Facebook page.

Authorities say that the two men – eventually identified as Nikey Dashone Walker and Shadeed Dontae Bey – stole a cellphone from a suburban Detroit man with cerebral palsy, beat him, recorded the assault on his cellphone, then promptly posted it to the victim’s Facebook page as well as their own.

WARNING: video is graphic.

The disturbing attack happened on Sunday morning.

Both men have criminal histories, and were arraigned Tuesday on charges of home invasion, unarmed robbery and aggravated assault. Bond was set at $25,000 each and the two men are due back in court next Tuesday, December 8th.

Not only does this attack make you the scum of the Earth, but videotaping it and flaunting it around makes you just plain stupid. Firstly, why the f*ck are you proud of this? Cerebral Palsy is a brain disorder that affects movement, posture, and muscle coordination. Why would you target someone with that? Why would you target ANYONE in the first place?

And secondly, why would you EVER make physical proof of the crime and post it to the Internet?! What part of that sounds like a good idea?!

Here’s hoping you guys get exactly what you deserve.

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For all of those folks who stayed in this Black Friday, consider yourselves lucky – the majority of people you would’ve encountered were probably going out to buy a gun.

Merica!

According to The Associated Press, the FBI “processed a record 185,345 background checks” on Black Friday 2015. While this doesn’t automatically mean that firearms were purchased, the amount of background checks  prove that it’s pretty likely; “manufacturers rely on the background check statistics as a measurement of the industry’s health.”

Look at that! So healthy they don’t even need an apple a day!

The previous surge came back in 2012, right after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.

The previous record for the most background checks in a single day was Dec. 21, 2012, about a week after 20 children and six adults were shot to death in a Connecticut elementary school. The week following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary saw the processing of 953,613 gun background checks.

This year’s Black Friday sales happened on the same day as the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado and, of course, after a string of on-campus shootings across the nation.

Could it all be related? Considering the current state of the world – an unfathomable amount of mass shootings, Donald Trump running for president, kids putting condoms on their head and videotaping it – it would make sense that people need a way to make sense of the chaos.

Or maybe they’re just givers! Who doesn’t love a shiny new AK-47 sticking out of Santa’s red velvet sack?! I know I did!

Happy holidays, kids!

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With each New Year we are given the opportunity to rejoice and celebrate in all of the magical possibilities of what’s to come. Some plan to lose weight, other’s want to give up un-healthy habits, and then there are some who just can’t wait to get their hands on the influx of incredibly hot calendar’s jam packed with super-hot photos of the most gorgeous women around. Sorry, not sorry; this 2016 swimsuit calendar eye candy is just far too hot to resist!

The beautiful thing about brand new swimsuit calendar’s is you’re really given the opportunity to pick and choose. Maybe you’re more of a Sports Illustrated kind of person, or maybe WWE Divas are more your thing, or maybe cheerleaders really seal the deal, the opportunities truly are endless.

So, with that being said go ahead and take a look at the 22 Hottest Swimsuit Calendar’s of 2016 and feast your eyes on the hottest calendar girls of the new year! You know, just in case you happen to know someone who might be interested in purchasing one or two or.. 7; no big deal!

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Every year, the University of Central Florida’s Zeta Tau Alpha Chapter hosts their annual “ZTA Lip Sync” competition. Before this year’s event, the sorority released a hype video to prepare the UCF community for the biggest PanHellenic-hosted event of the year. Fraternities, sororities, and even non-Greek dance clubs participate in the event.

This October, the Eta Kappa chapter of ZTA broke philanthropic records at UCF for a second year in a row, and has raised a total of $33,000 for their philanthropy, Breast Cancer Education and Awareness. The event is usually one of the first events of the Fall semester, and is therefore used not only to raise money for a great cause, but as a chance for both sororities and fraternities to show off their newest pledge classes from Fall recruitment. The event is often a bonding task for new members (and any other members who wish to participate), as they work together to choreograph dances and put a cohesive theme together with music and props.

With every round, we’re getting that much closer to crowning Miss COED 2016- a.k.a, the most awesome college girl in the country. Voting for Round Two of Miss COED 2016 is officially open, which means you have some decisions to make. After narrowing down 150 contestants to just 36 in Round One, the competition is fiercer now more than ever. Only one contestant per conference can move on to Round Three, so choose wisely.

Voting opened today, December 2 at 12 pm EST and closes December 18 at 12 pm EST. You can vote for one girl per school every 24 hours, so be sure to come back daily! You wouldn’t want your favorite to miss out on this awesome opportunity.

So what are you waiting for? Exercise your right to vote today…and everyday until Round Two closes. After all, it’s your civic duty.

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