Wow, one semester has flown by and there’s only been a single frosh-cessities post. What happened? Did I become an editor at BlogDailyHerald lose my creative edge? No! I’d just been planning the most epic freshman-centric post in the history of Ivy League blogs (NESCAC already did it, so it’s not in all of college blog history): a list of 50 things I learned during freshman year. The profound, the shallow and the funny after the jump.

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According to best.complex.com, our very own Baja’s Tex Mex is number 33 on the list of ‘The 50 best Late Night College Eats’ in the country! Although neither Nice Slice nor Antonio’s made the list, Providence got another shout out with the Haven Brothers’ food truck parked down by Kennedy Plaza. You’ve probably seen it before, but now that you know it’s one of the best, it might be time to try it! Hmm…we wonder if the Taco Truck will make next year’s list.

Step aside, Critical Review. Let the collective wisdom inscribed on the women’s bathroom in the Rock (circa May 2010) guide your way in choosing classes…

If you’re concerned about making good money at any point in your career, you might want to look at a list compiled by payscale.com, highlighting the eight lowest paid majors.
Brown only actually has three of them — art, education and religious studies. Does that mean we’re doing better than average?
Probably not, as more than half the concentrations Brown offers are not terribly career-relevant. Maybe Brown students are just better at spinning their bizarre courses to potential employers.

Brown University has topped Princeton Review’s list of the colleges with the happiest students for the second year in a row!

Princeton Review’s annual list of the Best Colleges in the country, this year 373, will be released in book form tomorrow. It ranks the top 20 schools in 62 categories.

Brown’s also ranked on four other lists: Best College Radio Station (#5), Best College Theater (#17), Lots of Race/Class Interaction (#18), and Best Quality of Life (#18).

I don’t think anyone really knows how they tabulate these things, some kind of survey, but good for Brown students for being (perceived as) happy. This is one ranking we kick ass at (unlike cough cough US News and World Report). Not that anyone cares about that sort of thing….

Finally, a list theme for which the HuffPo couldn’t ignore Brown – universities popular with celebrity children. Of the nine famous kids included in their list, Brown can boast three.

And maybe ignore the fact that a few of the photos border on stalker-ish. We didn’t take them!

Following last week’s embarrassing (and and confusing) omission from the HuffPo’s list of hipster universities, it’s good to be included.

For some great reporting on what all these star students mean for the University, head over to The Herald for the fourth installment of Branding Brown, a series about Brown’s image in the world.

Forbes Magazine has placed Providence tenth on a list of U.S. cities in free fall.

The magazine looked at 40 metropolitan areas in the country and judged them based on six categories: percent median home price has fallen, new home construction, net population change, per capita gross domestic product, percent change in unemployment between July 2006 and 2009 and number of jobs added between February 2007 and 2010.

Providence, which Forbes called “picturesque” (have they seen the Sci Li?), is the only city in New England on the list. It is also the only city on the list to see a negative population change. Props to us for sticking it out.

Even though we may want to be included on some list following Brown’s hipster-related snub earlier this week, we probably shouldn’t be too proud to have made this one, although it’s probably the only time Providence will be mentioned in the same breath as Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami (except perhaps in response to the question, “So now that you’ve graduated and can finally move away from Providence, where to?”).