Let's run through a hypothetical situation here: You're a college baseball player at a Division I school who enjoys posting pictures from your weekend escapades on your Facebook page. Monday morning you wake up to a notice from the dean's office: you've violated the college's student code of conduct.

But how could they know? Because they're scanning Facebook.

One of the great pains of going to college (aside from saying good-bye to your parents, obviously) is that first sucker punch from buying textbooks. Unless you're rolling onto campus with some serious savings or a high limit credit card, that first textbook receipt is enough to make you double over in pain.

And the worst part? Even the used textbooks are costly. You feel like there's nothing you can do about it.

Luke Livingstone is a busy man thanks to his circle of blogs including Blog About Beer, which you can guess the focus, and Real World Really, a place for common sense advice for new college grads. But today he's got beer on the mind...again.

Sure Coors Light and P.B.R. cost 50 cents a can, and as a college student those prices couldn't be beat. But now that you're a little older, your palate is a little more mature, right?…right? Well, what better way to satisfy your new-found thirst for life's finer-things, your need for a new hobby -- you can only beat Guitar Hero so many times... -- and your ever-tightening budget than learning to brew your own beer!

To paraphrase "Clerks," a "professor's job would be great if not for the (bleeping) students."

I kid, really I do. After all, students help pay the bills and provide a never-ending source of comedy and affirmation of stereotypes.

If you sense ire in the blog today you probably looked at the calendar and guessed right - the Class of 2012 "Mindset List" has been released.

The whole adjustment from back page columnist to front page columnist has been an interesting one.

On one hand I feel more pressure to write about topics of interest to a wider audience - after all it's my face on the front page. At the same time a part of me says, "why change what you were already doing?"

But there are some things, like the always fun mix of college students and credit cards, that you can't really ignore.

If you've had the opportunity to travel around this grand old country of ours, it's possible at some point or another you've encountered something that made you say "I wish we had that in Maine."

It's time for the Scanner - where all your YouTube shame finds new life as "educational videos."

We've got a lot to run through today, not just the typical crop of YouTubes, but also the results of the week-long 'mustache voting!

A lot of things go on at college campuses in preparation for the incoming hordes of freshman and other new students.

Dorms have to be hosed down, meat patties have to be ordered, merchandise has to be marked up and textbooks have to be tossed in the garbage to make way for new editions.

If it's Thursday then it must mean time for The Scanner - it's like an intervention, only more fun.

Yeah, you read that right. Girls Gone Wild, as in "reliably-sketchy-
always-getting-sued-for-not-getting-girls'-permission
-to-air-their-drunken-exploits" "Girls Gone Wild."

Two onging stories we’ve had in your Daily newspaper over the last several months have been the recent crackdowns on underage drinking in the Portland area, as well as the issue of who’s going to college and how its paid for.

When it comes down to it, college is not for everyone. Some people would rather get right to making money, others see vocational schools as the best way to get bankable skills.

Ever wonder who was the first person to start throwing around the phrase Brain Drain? Seriously, how much does that phrase get used, and is it as overused as “synergy,” “like” or “ninja?”

(Then again, can you ever really over-use ninja?)

Sure, repaying student loans stinks, but it could be worse…you could be facing criminal charges for trying to go to college.

Let’s look at the strange case of people trying to fake it through college – and I’m not talking about slacking off or cheating in classes. We’re talking about the students who aren’t exactly paying tuition, but still attend classes and have a place to sleep at night.

Looks like the Hilton Prison watch is technically over – at least in the sense that she would be eating processed food and rocking prison issue clothes instead of the designer wear she's accustomed to. Hopefully, for the sake of her fellow inmates, she remembered to wear underwear.

We’re roughly two weeks out from the end of the school year, and yet there seems to be no shortage of school news this time of year.

There was a card about a new book in my mailbox this morning, the typical promotional stuff most writers get here at the paper.

On first glance, "50 Ways to Leave Your Mother" is apparently just the latest in a long line of self-help, feel-good, don’t be doomed to be yourself type of books that are popular these days.

The beginning of May can be a beautiful, yet brutal, time on college campuses. On one hand it’s all almost over, the sun is starting to come out more frequently and there is a buffet of year-end parties. Then again, there’s a round of finals, the painful book buy-back and a date with the financial aid office.

So it it's not strange with the college year winding down there’s so much going on in and around campuses.

In trying to write today’s column about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the natural inclination would have been to get reactions from students here about fears of something of that magnitude happening in Maine.