ULife is the university lifestyle; a community dedicated to improving the experience while at college. Our number one focus is to deliver fresh content, produced by our student contributors from the collegiate community worldwide. ULife was designed to become the voice of the college student body, so if you have something to share, we want to hear from you!

The concept was first developed by founder Barrett Masso while still at Arizona State University. He wanted to bring a one-stop website for college students to the masses and ULife was born in the 2002-2003 school year.

Over the past years, Ulife has sat on the shelf, just waiting for the time to be put back into play. And in the fall of 2011, after nearly 6 years of resting, ULife re-enrolled.

During the initial months of the sites relaunch numerous turbulent events occured on campuses across the nation, it was clear that Ulife was back just in time. Now, with contributors from universities nationwide led by Senior Editor, Emily Kelley, Ulife is actively setting pace to become the recognized voice of the collegiate student body. Whether its something to laugh about, cry about, protest, or celebrate; if it involves University Life, Ulife is there.

The mission of Ulife.com is to create a unified and influential community of college students with a common goal of improving the University Lifestyle. In order to be successful in this mission, we as a community of writers have 3 core objectives;

a. Engage the students: get their attention, get their input, get them involved, keep them excited about being involved.
b. Inform: Deliver facts, tell stories, share experiences, express problems, expose issues, embrace and spread the positive vibes throughout campuses across the nation.
c. Entertain: This is not only through what we write, but more importantly how we write. We strive for our writing to be described as opinionated, passionate, intelligent, insightful, and/or humorous – all of which is produced solely by college journalists.

Why you ask?

Education is the foundation for our futures well being, yet our system as a whole is programmed for the past. Not only is our personal success at stake, but more so the prosperity of our communities, governments, financial systems, and environment. The cost of education is increasing, yet the quality is falling – why is this…

Many of the brightest minds of the past few decades opted out of attending these institutions, not because they didn’t have the desire to learn, but rather they recognized the diet in place was not one that would feed their mind and body to preform as they desired.

So the questions must be asked; does our system want us weak, poorly educated, poorly prepared, and to top it off, in deep trenches of debt? Its not an accusation, its a question.. But a very logical one at that.. With employment rates down, overall post grad earnings down, why are the tuitions on the rise?

This leads to the issue and our purpose, its not the fault of system, its the consumers (ie the students) whom area at fault for the current situation. Why? Because we, as in parents & students, continue to pay for it; and not only pay for it, but pay more for it without demanding the same increase in quality. So until the we effectively demand more, we will continue to receive less while continuing to pay more. This is where Ulife comes into play… We are not activists, we are community of students that want to see the education system fulfill its potential so we may do the same.

If we can succesfully create an environment where students are more engaged, more informed, and more entertained, we will see results that extend much farther than the college campuses; a stronger workforce, a stronger economy, a cleaner environment, a more effective government – the list goes on, but it starts with ensuring the young minds are being nurtured  rather than abused and neglected.

ULife is here… and the University lifestyle is about to improve, if not for us, for the ones to come.