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The Feed: The Best 300 Professors

mtvU — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:22:51 +0000

Pairing the power of the student reviews on RateMyProfessors.com with the college expertise of the gang at The Princeton Review, The Best 300 Professors is essentially a field guide to finding professors with the power to change your life.

The book takes a long list of schools with the highest professor ratings from the Princeton Review’s Best 376 Colleges and cross-references that list with information from RateMyProfessors.com’s massive database of reviews to present the best professors at a selection of schools throughout the Unites States including:

-Profiles of inspiring and challenging professors and the schools where they teach
-Student quotes about how these professors changed lives
-And, insight into classroom environments where you’ll learn the most

The Best 300 Professors is on sale now right here.

Books: Everything Is Going To Be Ok

mtvU — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:01:41 +0000

All you graduates out there… this book’s for you. New Yorker artist and former Seinfeld writer Bruce Eric Kaplan delivers another of his wisely-observed and sharply delineated cartoon parables of modern life with EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY: A Book for You or Someone Like You. Setting the concept of the warm and fuzzy graduation gift book on its ear, Kaplan brings back Edmund and Rosemary, the curiously compelling, hilariously relatable Brooklyn couple, for another adventure.

Chew On Life’s Big Questions With ‘Soul Pancake’

mtvU — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:00:52 +0000

You know Rainn Wilson as the quirky co-worker Dwight Schrute on The Office but off the screen he is trying to expand your mind on-line with SoulPancake.com and now officially in your hands with the release of the book SoulPancake. This book urges you to explore philosophy, creativity, spirituality, love, truth, science, and so much more. With bold questions, intriguing challenges, and mind-bending art, Soul Pancake creates a space for you to stimulate your brain stem, spark your soul, and figure out what it means to be human. Pick up a copy of the book in stores now.

The Feed: Due Date

mtvU — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:00:15 +0000

Check out the trailer for Due Date, the hilarious new comedy from the director of ‘Old School’ and ‘The Hangover’. Starring the ever talented Robert Downey Jr and everyone’s favorite funny man, Zach Galifianakis, Due Date, takes us on a road trip that actually won’t have you asking “are we there yet?” Head to theaters on November 5th to catch this must see flick.

Green Day: Rock Band

mtvU — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:02:53 +0000

Can’t get enough of Green Day? We got the remedy. Pick up Green Day: Rock Band when it drops on June 8th. Not only are you gonna get 47 of your most favorite tracks which span Green Day’s career from Dookie to 21st Century Breakdown but you get to be the band too. Channel your inner Billy Joe, Mike or Tre Cool and get to rockin’ out cause as you play you get the chance to unlock Green Day’s personal vault. Inside the vault, players can unlock collectible images and movies from Green Day’s incredible career! Green Day: Rock Band includes more than 100 collectible images along with more than 40 minutes of video, including rare and unreleased interview footage, outtakes and performances. What are you waiting for? Rock out to a copy when it’s released on June 8th.

“Francois Style” Pick-Up Lines From The Forthcoming Film Youth In Revolt

mtvU — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:22:25 +0000

Screenings for Michael Cera’s new film Youth In Revolt hit colleges across the country and we were on-site getting “Francois Style ” pick up lines from the audience. Check out some of our favorite lines below and don’t forget to go see Youth In Revolt, hitting the big screen on January 8th. To see bad boy Francois in action for yourself watch the official trailer for the film here.

Alec Espirin - If snowflakes were kisses I'd give you a blizzard.

Alicia Castro - If you were a burger on the McDonald's menu you'd be the McGorgeous.

Cecily Groves - Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I run by again?

Daniele Dunn - Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got fine written all over you!

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Giovanni Belizaire - If I could re-arrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together.

Jacob Keller - I lost my number. Can I have yours?

The Feed: Youth In Revolt

mtvU — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:43:12 +0000

Youth In Revolt is a coming-of-age comedy that puts a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Starring Michael Cera (also of the Oscar® winning film, Juno, and Superbad) and based on the acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne, YOUTH IN REVOLT is the story of Nick Twisp – a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini – who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, free-spirited Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family vacation. But family, geography and jealous ex-lovers conspire to keep these two apart. With Sheeni’s encouragement, Nick abandons his dull, predictable life and develops a rebellious alter ego: Francois. With his ascot, his moustache and his cigarette, Francois will stop at nothing to be with Sheeni, and leads Nick Twisp on a path of destruction with unpredictable and uproarious consequences.

Youth In Revolt screenings are hitting colleges across the country and may be coming to a theater near you. We’ll be on-site at each screening, giving eligible entrants the chance to win a Francois Style Study Break to Paris for two.

College	Screening Date/Time	Location
Ohio State University	12/8 at 7:30pm	AMC Lennox 777 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212
University of Miami	12/9 at 7:00pm	UM School of Communication 5100 Brunson Drive Miami, FL 33146
Texas A&M	12/8 at 7:30pm	Cinemark Movies 18 1401 Earl Rudder Freeway South College Station, TX 77845
Arizona State University	12/8 at 7:00pm	Harkins Tempe Marketplace 2000 East Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 1160 Tempe, AZ 85281
University of Florida	12/9 at 7:00pm	Regal Gainesville Stadium 14 3101 SW 35th Boulevard Gainesville, FL 32608
University of Maryland	12/9 at 7:30pm	The Hoff Theater 0126 Stamp Student Union College Park, MD 2074
San Diego State University	12/9 at 7:00pm	AMC Mission Valley 1640 Camino del Rio N., Suite 205 San Diego, CA 92108
Indiana University, Bloomington	12/10 at 7:00pm	Kerasotes Showplace East 11 1351 S. College Mall Road Bloomington, IN 47401
Purdue University	12/10 at 7:00pm	Goodrich Wabash Landing 9 300 E. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47906
University of Michigan	12/10 at 7:30pm	State Theater 233 S State St, Ann Arbor MI 48105
University of Wisconsin, Madison	12/10 at 7:30pm	Sundance Cinemas Madison 430 N Midvale Boulevard Madison WI 53705
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	12/10 at 7:30pm	St. Anthony Main 115 SE Main St Minneapolis, MN 55414

The Feed: Eating Animals

mtvU — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:14:02 +0000

EATING ANIMALS is a carefully researched, artfully told, funny, and personal exploration of what we eat and why, how what we eat affects our lives and the environment, and how every individual can make seemingly small choices that will enact big change. Like many people, the author Jonathan Safran Foer spent his teens and early adulthood oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. As a dabbler, he had vaguely considered his personal relationship with animals, but as a father, he realized that this relationship would become more important than ever before. Could he explain to his son why it was okay to love animals in the children’s books they were reading and also okay to eat them? And how would he explain that it’s okay to eat a chicken or a fish but not George, the child’s beloved, troublemaking pet dog? Because industry conceals the unsettling truth about its operations and few reliable public resources are available, Foer — undecided but compelled by the responsibilities of fatherhood — set out to discover for himself exactly what meat is, how it gets to our tables, and how we define what’s acceptable to consume and what isn’t. Along the way, he made eye-opening visits to factory farms in the middle of the night, observed pig-slaughter operations, and also found quiet heroes in some remarkably mindful animal farmers. To find out more info and to pick up a copy of this compelling book Eating Animals head to www.eatinganimals.com right now.

The Feed: Shootin’ The Sh*t With Kevin Smith: The Best Of Smodcast

mtvU — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:07:30 +0000

Kevin Smith is not only an independent filmmaker, writer, actor and cultural commentator but a bad ass best selling novelist as well and his latest book “SHOOTIN’ THE SH*T WITH KEVIN SMITH: THE BEST OF SMODCAST” is no exception. Ever wonder what would happen if Kevin Smith ate four pounds of steak tartar? How about his feelings on Helen Keller and dirt malls? Those topics and more are thoroughly examined and discussed in his weekly podcast, SModcast, and now its all put to print for your reading pleasure. Pick up a copy of this hilarious book out in stores right now.

The Feed: THE GUINEA PIG DIARIES – My Life as an Experiment

mtvU — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:02:32 +0000

A.J. Jacobs, the man who spent a year reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and another year following every rule prescribed by the Bible—subsequently turning his experiences into the hilarious New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically—chronicles his additional adventures in extreme living in THE GUINEA PIG DIARIES: My Life as an Experiment. With the same fearlessness that shaped his year-long quests for enlightenment, A.J. immerses himself in month-long exercises in self-illumination—from assuming the identity of a beautiful young woman to living a life of total honesty. The results are equal parts funny and insightful. Pick up a copy of this book out in stores now.