Search by Category |
Subscribe to Our Feed
|
Pimp Your (Dorm) Room, Win $1000 |
To kickstart the submissions, we're offering the first ten students who upload a narrated video tour of their on-campus residence a free flip-video camera ... for keeps!
Feel free to borrow a flip-video cameras from Student Communications by stopping by their office at 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor by the back elevator.
You can write studentloop@colum.edu ahead of time if you want to reserve one.
If you can turn your dorm room into something that could be on MTV Cribs, then you might be the big $1000 winner of Columbia's first (and possibly last 'pimp your room' contest.
It works like this.
1. Pimp your room. Window decals, hand-painted bedsheets, a wicker lampshade, a finely threaded beadwall ... you tell us. Whatever makes your dorm room 'pimp.'
To help, you can make an appointment to use Columbia's Build Shop (located in the basement of the 731 S. Plymouth Ct. building) for space to create and put some light construction projects together. To make an appointment at the build shop, write Build Shop Manager Kevin Cassidy at kcassidy@colum.edu.
Note: Make sure ALL of your 'pimping' adheres to the decoration guidelines outlined on page (8) of the Residence Life Handbook (pdf).
2. Document it. Once pimped, you'll document the awesomeness in video and upload it to YouTube.
The Student Communications Unit will lend you an HD flip video camera to do the documenting. To borrow a camera, write studentloop@colum.edu and let us know when you want to pick it up.
You'll also need to create a YouTube account if you don't have one already and upload a two or three minute video tour of your room ... with some narration. (Tell us what you did.)
3. Submit it. Visit www.coum.edu/pimpit and submit a link to your YouTube video. Submissions close on Sunday, November 1 at midnight!
4. People vote! Voting begins on Sunday November 8 and ends November 20.
5. You win. The last room standing (with the most votes obviously) will win a $1000 ... minus tax of course :(.
We'll announce the winner in the December issue of the Residence Life newsletter.
Post Your Comment
