As many Harvard men are aware, www.collegehumor.com is in the process of running a nationwide contest entitled “Hottest College Girl in America.” The competition hopes to discover, well, nevermind.
One Harvard undergrad, Jenna I. Shoemaker ’06, was a contender.
Shoemaker first entertained the notion of entering the contest during a routine conversation with her boyfriend.
“My boyfriend Jay, who graduated from Harvard last year, is working out in LA in mobile entertainment. Collegehumor is one of his company’s clients so he informed me of the contest and told me I should enter,” Shoemaker says.
“I thought it would be amusing and who doesn’t want a shopping spree in NYC and a chance at a modeling contract?”
Unfortunately, Shoemaker did not emerge victorious from a tough first round match-up with Becky K, a sul- try brunette from Walden University in Colorado.
Jay J. Ku ’05, her boyfriend, takes the loss well. “I like steak,” he says, “but I know a lot of guys prefer greasy cheeseburgers, and I guess in this case greasy cheeseburgers won out.”
Shoemaker also realized that by entering a contest of this nature, on a site frequented by so many horny college guys, she would certainly earn some unusual attention from the opposite sex.
“Well, I’ve had a lot more random requests on facebook.com to become friends with people that I don’t know,” Shoemaker said.
In the end, this senior and professional tri-athlete asserted that the experience was a fun one that would only help in attaining her lofty career expectations as an athlete. After all, she says, “It never hurts to have your name mentioned in SI on Campus.”
