Being a college student is very demanding. There is the whole academic thing. Like going to classes, and completing homework assignments. Then, on top of that, you're expected to feed yourself. And clean yourself, and clean your clothes, and clean your room (or not). It's all too much, really.

Which is why one Georgetown University student - an overtaxed sophomore! - has placed an ad with the campus' student employment office seeking a personal assistant.

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Georgetown University has two major campus newspapers, The Hoya, published twice weekly, and The Voice, published weekly. As an undergraduate some years back, I spent much of my college career, to the detriment of my college career, working at the Voice.

Like any two institutions in close competition and proximity (they occupy adjacent offices in the student center), The Hoya and The Voice have developed a relationship, rivalry even, that ranges from the insouciant to the deathly serious. Hoya staffers seethe over how their ad revenues subsidize Voice operations, while Voice staffers stew over The Hoya's massive sense of self-importance.

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College Rag Wrap-up: Your weekly roundup of what’s new(s) in D.C. college papers (and blogs). Each Monday, City Desk summarizes the most interesting stories from college oriented newspapers and blogs in the area. Links are compiled by City Paper intern Ryan J. Reilly, who is an editor at Catholic University’s student newspaper, the Tower.

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Yes, Sam Sweeny, your article on the City Paper is pretty good. But saying I look like the "bald record store clerk from High Fidelity" is just plain baldism. Here's Todd Louiso's IMDB page---if anyone around here looks like him, it's Moyer. Me, I'm more like Dean Stockwell with a shaved head.

Compare photos below. I'm the one with the glasses.