Recent Grad Starts Online College Guidebook Called Unigo

by Dan Haley | October 30, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Do you ever have great ideas for future businesses? Me too! But while I'm trying to settle on a name for my 2.0 erotic literature site, guys like Jordan Goldman are actually starting real companies. Goldman, Wesleyan '04, just launched Unigo, a site that's kind of like CollegeHumor without the boobs or jokes. The website, which Goldman considers more a "national grassroots movement" than a website, is essentially an online student guidebook: it contains brief staff-generated descriptions of the colleges and a growing amount of student commentary. That's right: students are logging onto this site and reviewing their colleges (and posting pictures and videos). Let's see what they're saying:

Alli at Columbia:

Columbia social life is what you make of it. At a glance it is incredibly lame, but if you meet the right people and can make your own fun it is a great time. The Greek life seems to be run but neonazi's as there is basically no such thing as a frat party anymore. There seems to be a war on fun at our school and I hear people complaining all the time. There are ways around it and as I said if you know the right people and put yourself out there, a good time can be had.

War? Nazis? Frat parties? Columbia exactly.

After the jump, Lamonster laments the exodus of Harvard grads into i-banking (I think this was posted before September).

Lamonster:

Who cares about academics when there's six-figure finance jobs eagerly advertising themselves at OCS's career fairs, which are unrivaled in their balanced representation of the careers available to Harvard students? Why study for final exams in January when there's 50 companies to apply to on E-recruiting? With Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers to impress, who wouldn't take Capital Markets and cross-register for Accounting at MIT?

So much talent and so many dreams enter Harvard every fall. Somehow, they emerge from the crucible as so many cogs for the finance machine.

Will Harvard kids still be able to sell out this year? Or will they be forced to pursue their passions?

Nah, they'll probably just go to law school.

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5 Responses to “Recent Grad Starts Online College Guidebook Called Unigo”

  1. billyrageguy Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Unigo? What’s next hyperbook? Interspace?

    Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin said it best last night:


    “We might not be the best people” – Jack
    “But we’re not the worst!” – Liz
    “Graduate students are the worst.” – Jack and Liz

  2. columbia '07 Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    @billyrageguy

    As a current graduate student, let me tell you, this has already become the mantra of my department.

  3. citation needed Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    I’m also a grad student and these kinds of jokes have always left me befuddled (thinking also of the Simpsons’). Do people really have such harsh views of grad students?

  4. Kaycee Says:
    December 25th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Excellent site. Good work.

  5. Jake Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    ‘But while I’m trying to settle on a name for my 2.0 erotic literature site’

    fuckr (beta of course)…

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