College Life Finale Tonight on MTV

The first season of MTV’s College Life comes to a close tonight at 10pm, and it should be filled with drama and dilemmas.

There are a lot of lesson that will be learned when you are a young adult, and one of the most important lessons is  how to keep your casual relationships in order. Or you could end up with a situation like this:

Take Five With MTV College Life’s Kevin On RealityRollCall.Com

Name: Kevin Tracy
Home town: St Paul, MN
Birthday: 2/11/90
Show you are on: MTV’s “College Life”

RealityRollCall: Name three hidden talents you have:

Kevin: Like every other 19-year old male, I’m invincible, know everything, and am fearless

RealityRollCall: Name three things you can’t live without:

Kevin: 1. Women
2. Beverages
3. Nature

RealityRollCall: Name your top three favorite songs:

Kevin: 1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Sugarcane- Alex Argir
3. Fortunate Son- CCR Read more

Take Five With College Life’s Lindsay On RealityRollCall.Com

With the success of Josh and Andrea’s Take Five’s we’ve been doing our best to get you more of the College Life stars. Luckily for you(and us), we’ve gotten a hold of  Lindsay the high school Valedictorian. Enjoy!

Name: Lindsay
Home town: Milwaukee, WI
Show you were on: MTV’s “College Life”

RealityRollCall: Name three things you can’t live without:

Lindsay: 1. My puppy Dickens
2. My family and friends
3. Juicy Pear Jelly Bellys

RealityRollCall: Name your top three favorite songs:

Lindsay: 1. You Found Me – Fray
2. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon tied with Beautiful – Akon
3. God Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flats

RealityRollCall: Name your three favorite foods:

Lindsay: 1. Chicken and Broccoli Chinese Food
2. Steak Shish Kababs on the grill
3. Stuffed Green Peppers

RealityRollCall: Name three people you most admire:

Lindsay: 1. My Grandfather and Grandmother
2. My Father and Mother
3. My Brother

RealityRollCall: Name three things people would be surprised to know about you:

Lindsay: 1. I am allergic to chocolate
2. I had the West Nile Virus my senior year in high school (yes, I got bit by a     mosquito :/)
3. I have traveled to 47 out of the 50 states

Take Five With College Life’s Josh On RealityRollCall.Com

Name: Josh Hickson
Home town: Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Birthday: 03/21/1989
Show(s) you were on: MTV’s “College Life”

RealityRollCall: Name three things you can’t live without:

Josh: 1.   Weightlifting
2.   Competition
3.   My boys from home

RealityRollCall: Name your top three favorite songs:

Josh: 1.   Eminem- till I collapse
2.   Flipsyde- someday
3.   Crossfade- colors Read more

Take Five With College Life’s Andrea On RealityRollCall.Com

College Life is MTV’s new hit reality show currently featuring 4 college freshmen and their everyday lives as they deal with the ups and downs of being a college freshmen. We were lucky enough to have one of the stars of the show Take Five with us, so check out Andrea’s Take Five to learn a little more about this self proclaimed “cheese head.”

Name: Andrea Endries
Home town: Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Birthday: December 10th
Show you were on: MTV’s “College Life”

RealityRollCall: Name three things you can’t live without: (things not people)

Andrea: 1. Bible
2. Water bottle (I go through at least 8 a day)
3. Lip gloss (or quality lip conditioner)

RealityRollCall: Name your top three favorite songs: (of all time)

Andrea: 1. Any Man of Mine-Shania Twain
2. Lip Gloss-Lil Mama
3. It’s Raining Men-The Weather Girls

RealityRollCall: Name your three favorite foods:

Andrea: 1. Tomatoes
2. Apples
3. Cookie Dough ice cream (or Ben and Jerry’s Phish food…yummy)

RealityRollCall: Name three people you most admire:

Andrea: 1. My dad
2. Tony Dungee
3. Aaron Kampman

RealityRollCall: Name your three favorite reality TV experiences:

Andrea: 1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. American Idol

RealityRollCall: Name your three favorite TV shows: (past and present)

Andrea: 1. Veronica Mars
2. Gossip Girl
3. One Tree Hill

RealityRollCall: Name three people you would love to meet:

Andrea: Jesus Christ (who’s name can I put to follow that??)

We’d like to thank Andrea for taking the time out to Take Five with us, and be sure to check out College Life on Mondays at 10:30pm ET on MTV!

College Life: Premier

College Life
Mondays, 10:30pm on MTV

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has an impressive academic reputation, thanks in no small part to its English department and its honors curriculum. But you would have no idea it was anything more than a house party by watching MTV’s College Life. MTV gave 4 freshman hand-held cameras, and ask them to film their lives. If your freshman year was anything like mine, you would think that would make for a great deal of drama, intrigue, awkward sex, and on-screen crying. All the ingredients of great reality TV, right?

Unfortunately, in order to avoid turning the campus into The City: College Edition, the University denied MTV access to film any of the series in the academic buildings. The result is a claustrophobic series of poorly lit dorm room conversations and riotous frat parties which takes a lot of the drama out of the subject matter.

MTV had an interesting choice with College Life. If they brought in film crews, they would have limited access, and they would run the risk of creating a staged, phony quality, as it is impossible to forget you’re on camera with 4 men following you everywhere. At the same time, if MTV let the students film themselves, they would get much more candid and natural footage, but the students wouldn’t film anything embarrassing or potentially embarrassing. And what is college but a laundry list of things we regret?

MTV gave cameras to Jordan (Jamaican-Canadian introvert), Andrea (conservative Christian), Alex (academic with trust issues), and Kevin (hard partying jock) and allowed them to film themselves. Whenever anything starts getting good (Andrea going over to a guy’s place to make out! Kevin drinks to hard and fails calc!) the students don’t or can’t film it. So what we do get are a lot of myspace-style head shots with the cameras tilted up, and people shouting “whoo hoo!” a lot.

I’m sure the show has material down there somewhere. We can all relate to the insecurity and the drama of starting college, the awkward mistakes and the mishandling of relationships. But why oh why does the show have to be so boring? You feel like you’re being dragged from one messy room to another, never really listening to people talk, never really seeing anything cooler than beerpong. If college life was really like that, it would be astonishing that any of us grew up into functioning adults.

Meet the Cast of MTV’s College Life

From MTV:

What do you get when you take away the producers, directors and camera operators? “College Life,” is a self-produced, groundbreaking new series following students as they embark on their freshman year of school in a way never before seen on television. Following a group of college kids at a Big Ten University in Madison, Wisconsin, the students will tell their own stories in an authentic and unprecedented way, as cameras are put in their hands. From hookups to breakups to academic pressure and homesickness, “College Life” delivers a new level of “real”-ity access starting April 13 at 10:30pm ET/PT on MTV.

“Technology has democratized the filmmaking process for our viewers. That fact combined with this generation’s real time publishing online of every aspect of their lives brings us into a new era of honesty and openness, and College Life exemplifies this,” said Tony DiSanto, head of MTV Programming. “College Life has turned the cameras over to the students themselves, allowing them to tell their own stories, show us their world, bare their emotions and take us on a dramatic journey through Freshman year as they see and experience it. It’s an entirely new and different viewing experience that we are very excited about.”

Engaging college students around the world, mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is set to launch a “College Life” contest, as part of the Best Film on Campus initiative beginning, in mid-April which challenges students to produce and submit their versions of their college Life. Finalists’ content will be showcased on collegelife.mtv.com and bestfilmoncampus.com, where fans will be able to vote for their favorite video. While several finalists will be chosen, only one winner will receive the hottest MTV gifts and prizes.

For 24/7 access, viewers will be able to see cast photos, watch full episodes and check out exclusive extended footage of each cast member on collegelife.mtv.com. On the go? Watch full episodes, sneak peeks and episode recaps on mobile video across all wireless carrier partners. And MTV Mobile WAP users can check photo galleries, cast bios, weekly episode guides and take weekly polls.

Let’s introduce you to the “College Life” crew:

Kevin:

Hi, I’m 18, from St. Paul, Minnesota and I’m chillin’. I like cooking outdoors, Kid Rock, good grades, fathead posters, and mini-skirts. Not too sure what I’m doing in the future Seth Rogen seems to have a pretty good gig. My buddies and I have a pretty good time summers consist of crappy minimum wage jobs, Pennsylvania Style Light beers, partying outside, and tan girls. In college, Penny light is now PBR light, math is ridiculously harder, the girls are better looking (no offense), and you have way more fun.

Andrea:

Hey, I am 19-years old and was born and raised a cheese head. I love animals, am known to break into dance at any given moment and I absolutely love to sing (even though I’m not that great). I plan to major in journalism and/or broadcasting, and traveling the world. I am unattached and am having too much fun getting to know the wide array of guys out there. In the wise words of Pink, “life is my dance floor and God is my DJ.”

Jordan:

What up! I’m19 years old, was born and raised in Wheaton, IL, a predominately white suburb of Chicago. With a mom from Jamaica and dad from Canada – both cultures have influenced me. I am a music nerd. I envision a career of writing but who knows what the future brings? I’m into literature so if you ever want to start a book club or need a good book to read hit me up. I am currently single, but I’m definitely ready for a relationship. So that’s me. Well not all of me but a nice little cross-section.

Alex:

Hey ya’ll! I’m 19 years old and I’m from Montgomery, Texas in search of a fresh start, new friends, and cultural diversity. I’m here on a scholarship, so school is a priority, yet balancing between grades and a social life is tough. I am passionate about volunteer work and hope to double major in Journalism and International Studies. I’m a music junky, a vegetarian, a twin, and I watch SportsCenter religiously.