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*This was emailed to our existing members earlier today... read on if you are curious. :P

Yes, you read correctly! CollegeTimes has teamed up with HP to offer an amazing giveaway contest for a sort of "back to school" theme. The winner will not only take home a brand new HP DV6 16-inch widescreen laptop with 4GB RAM and a Blu-ray drive, but also a portable HP Mini laptop for taking notes in class or picking up WiFi hotspots around town! (Along with a free Timbuk2 laptop carry case thrown in!)

http://collegetimes.us/laptop-giveaway-contest/

Those of you who have been with CollegeTimes since the beginning have a small advantage in this contest, as you can gain extra "points" for having had past articles approved for publication. But of course, our main goal is to see users being active between the dates of August 22-26, 2009, as requested by HP as part of this giveaway. Check the link above for more details, and jump into action today! Your chances are huge. =)

In other news, CollegeTimes has been hard at work the past few months re-designing our website into a professional, world-class community with the help and support of various sponsoring companies and designers (we finally re-launched our forum!). We hope you like our new design, and the renewed energy and reputation that is beginning to come with it. We are now partnered with various big-time college websites including College News, Unigo, CollegeClickTV, and more! We are listed on Technorati as a quickly growing college blog and hope to become listed in Google News later this year.

We are so glad to see most of you sticking around through our messy reconstruction, and are humbled and amazed by the knowledge and energy that each of you bring to our community. A great big thank you, and congratulations, to you all.

That's it! Remember to check out our contest rules below, and take a spin around our almost-completely-finished new site design! Thanks guys and gals, and good luck!

http://collegetimes.us/laptop-giveaway-contest/

CollegeTimes Team

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Here's hoping the contest helps boost the site's popularity! It certainly seems to have potential. JJ, when you get a chance, please take a peek at some of the posts that were made about the funky signatures and adding an introduction subforum. Great job on the site :)

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Well, it's strange to say welcome to the founder of this site, but... Welcome!
I'm sure the CollegeTimes will grow big by the end of the contest! There are some serieus members here now, they proofed their activity already the first day.

I started to post since yesterday, because yesterday it was already 22 of August in my country (GMT+1). Does these post count or do I loose them... :'(
Is there a way to see the amount of posts you made this far? What about the others?

I will try to keep this site running and active. I wondered why the forum posts and article comments are less important then submitting an article. I mean forum activity shows more then writing an article. It's still your choice, I'm just advising, you don't have to agree.

O, almost forgot, about the signature that is placed wrong: http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/signature-placed-wrong

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By the looks of the alexa rating, the site is on the move! looks like the contest is helping things :p

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I hope the site will still grow AFTER the contest. I will stay active that's for sure, but I'm guessing not everyone will stay after the contest.

Thanks for sharing the info, vanguished. Alexa is a good site! The traffic is increasing quite fast I've to admit. Before you know you're upgrading the server to handle all the traffic, JJ :P

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Great to be a part of this community & thanks for the opportunity to win. :)

Posted 2 years ago #
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When is the deadline? You said midnight 26 August, but what timezone?

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Pacific USA.

Posted 2 years ago #
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Alrighty then, just 4 hours 40 minutes to go! lol

Posted 2 years ago #
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So it must be over by now? (FINALLY some more SLEEP!!)

Posted 2 years ago #
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And the waiting begins.

Posted 2 years ago #
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And as we all know, waiting can be very long...
I hope JJ announce it today, otherwise we will be stoned tommorrow :D

Posted 2 years ago #
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I wonder if I was active enough, unfortunately no time to post articles. Good luck guys!

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I had 5 articles: 2 published, 2 rejected, 1 still pending. Couldn't be more active unless I hadn't to sleep. My stystem is crap, I hope thunder destroyes it... :s

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Haha, I know what you mean Devenox.My husband forgot to wake me up after he was done with the computer,so I lost hours last night when I could have been rewriting my article or posting on the forum!Haha,but I see you are an hp fan now,devenox...

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I just hope I'm the one who'll be hailed the winner! I badly needed a laptop now... But winner or not, I guess I'm really gonna stay here in CollegeTimes as a contributor. This site's cool I must say! :D

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I'll see you that and raise you a laptop(already invalid and held together by scotch tape) that died on the first day of the contest.

But we're all college students and I know we all need this for some reason or another,so at least the sob stories are leveled all around:D

And your articles are really well written,vjczar, and I like hearing things from a Filipino perspective.

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I've been always a HP fan, not just now. I really want to replace my desktop. Rendering takes hours, the better the pc i have, the better my college will be...

Posted 2 years ago #
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Are you going to get(or win) a laptop next, or stick to a desktop?

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If I don't win, I can't efford to buy a new one, dude. I'm not rich.
Why do you think I'm getting crazy because of my slow computer, not because it's just slow, it's because I need it for heavy apps for college (level design is very intensive)

Posted 2 years ago #
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Isn't the contest ended by now ? Who won ?

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We don't know yet, JJ is online, so it can't take much longer than a few hours. Or maybe is still reviewing some articles, don't know. I'm getting crazy, I can't wait any longer! Patient I guess... :P

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I never had any luck in any contests i did participate. :(

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You joined too late, that's why. I never won anything before, no, I won one time: it was a lamp!

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I'm dying right now...
Can you please say a hour , JJ ? Please, my stomache can't hold it any longer...

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