Aw yeah. Huffington Post showed College Hill some love today, publishing Brown on the list of Hottest Colleges in the Nation.

Unfortunately it wasn’t a list of sexiest colleges (I don’t know what their polling methods were, but we are not less attractive than Princeton, thank you very much). Instead, in the words of Inside College, we’re “the place to be.”

I’m not quite sure what that means exactly, but hey, who am I to question their “panel of experts”? Go Bruno!

Really? Of all the scenic places on campus, you chose the medical buildings?

Somewhere between our nonstop discussions of sex, debates between V-Dub or Ratty and complaining about orgo, we Brown students are actually intellectual. At least, that’s according to a poll by Unigo published on Huffington Post.

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The Herald's fall 2011 undergraduate survey

Every semester, The Herald conducts a survey of the undergraduate student body on a number of issues. Some questions, such as approval of Ruth Simmons and UCS, frequently appear on the poll, while many of the others change each semester. This semester’s poll asked:

• Whether or not students would consider joining an ROTC program, at Brown or another school
• How many sexual partners students have had so far this semester
• What students think of their class sizes
• What students think of the number of admissions spots that are reserved for athletic recruits
• How well students think Ruth Simmons and UCS are doing their jobs
• How satisfied or dissatisfied students are with academic advising
• How students see their families’ wealth compared to that of the “average Brown student”
• How confident students are in getting a desirable job after graduation
• What electronic devices students own

Check out the article with the full results here! (Disclaimer: I wrote the article.)

Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be publishing a series of articles, each of which goes into depth about one specific poll question. More reasons to read The Herald every day!

In case you aren’t sick of people asking  — and we hope you aren’t, because spring break is fun — BlogDailyHerald wants to know your spring break plans. Direct your attention to the right and vote in our poll.

(210 people voted in our last poll, when we asked who you were most excited to see play Spring Weekend. 50 percent chose MGMT, 23 percent voted for Snoop Dogg, while 13, 10 and 4 percent went for Major Lazer, the Black Keys and Wale, in that order.)

Snoop Dogg, MGMT, the Black Keys, Major Lazer and Wale are all playing Spring Weekend. It’s an embarrassment of riches. Who are you most excited to see? Vote in our poll (it’s over there on the right) and get ready for tickets to go on sale March 24.