Hello everyone, I was recently introduced to a delicious snack I thought I’d share with the rest of you. Have you ever heard of Fried Double Stuffed Oreos?

For those who haven’t, I’ve decided to share the delicious recipe for you all.

Ingredients

2 cups of flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons of sugar

5 ice cubes

2 cups seltzer

1 egg yolk

1 pack of Double Stuffed Oreo cookies

Vegetable oil for frying

DIRECTIONS

1. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a medium bowl. Put the 5 ice cubes in a glass measuring cup and add enough seltzer to make 2 cups. Add to the flour mixture along with the egg yolk. Mix until there are no large lumps and the ice cubes have melted. Set aside.

2. Fill a tall saucepan or deep-fryer with up to 2 inches of vegetable oil and turn on the stove. Dip the Oreo’s in the batter and fry a few at a time until crispy. Each Oreo should take around 45 to 60 seconds. Once completed, carefully remove with a spoon, and drain on paper towels. Continue until all the Oreo’s have been dipped in batter and fried.

Once completed, you should be left with a tasty treat that should look something like this…

Numerous states and colleges have created programs in recent years to promote graduation and minimize the need for remedial courses.

BCCC has combined non credit developmental classes while adding personal tutorials and online assessments that allow students to work at a pace more comfortable for them. Massachusetts has begun using a student’s high school grade point average instead of standardized tests to determine suitability for remedial classes. Texas State University is allowing students to take remedial and credit courses in the same subject simultaneously to speed up the learning process, and recently CUNY schools have been offering an intense program to rapidly move students out of remedial classes.

The replacement of remedial courses is meant to advance students more quickly, in intensive and interactive courses, instead of being stuck in a remedial class for multiple semesters.

For all you Michelle Obama fans out there, the First Lady will guest star as herself on the hit ABC show Nashville, on May 7.

Mrs. Obama is raking up quiet the resume, as this recent guest spot only adds to her growing list of credits. So far, she’s been on Sesame Street, iCarly, and recently The Biggest Loser to promote physical fitness and healthful eating for her “Let’s Move” Initiative.

But for those eager to catch her on television sooner, check her out on Thursday’s season finale of Parks and Recreation on NBC.

Anyone have a question or questions on becoming a U.S. citizen? Well, you can get all your questions answered to these and other questions in just two weeks at the 12th annual Daily News/CUNY Citizenship NOW call-in. Since the call-in first opened, more than 123,000 questions from callers from New York City and around the country have been answered.

This year’s event begins on April 28, and runs till May 2. The line will remain open between 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. More than 400 attorneys, government accredited paralegal,s and trained community advocates will staff the call in. And don’t think that you must be able to speak English, as there will be separate phone lines for English, Spanish, and dozens of other langues

Besides the Daily News and the City University of New York, this year’s call-in sponsors include media sponsors WABC-TV and WXTV Univision 41, tech sponsors Cisco and Presidio, Gristedes, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), CUNY School of Law, International Rescue Committee (IRC), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), New Americans Campaign (NAC), the New York State Office for New Americans (ONA) and Stella and Charles Guttman Community College.

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Student loans are currently at an all time high. While loan free graduates can immediately begin starting their life, indebted graduates have to spend years paying principal and interest on loans. The standard time that students take to repay loans tend to be 10 years, but can be much longer.

A 2012 Pew Research Center analysis of government data, found that nearly 40% of households, led by someone 35 or younger, have student debt.

Of the nearly 20 million Americans who attend college each year, about 12 million of them are forced to take out loans, according to the Almanac of Higher Education. Estimates show that the average four year graduate rakes up between $26,000 to $29,000 in loan. Increasing tuition seems to be the major cause due to reduced state funding and other campus costs.

But college graduates do have something to look forward to. Young adults, ages 25 to 32, who work full time, earn anywhere around $45,500 a year. That’s $17,500 more than people who only have a high school diploma.

I believe it’s high time that states begin to re-think college financing options to bring debt down and graduation rates up!

Ever wish that you could attend college for free? Prepare to jump for joy, because you might be getting your wish! Well, that is if a proposed legislation, called Tuition Free-NY, is passed. The potential legislation, would offer students free tuition at New York’s public colleges. Sound appealing so far? Don’t get too excited just yet, for there is a catch. In exchange for free tuition, you must volunteer for 250 hours of community service, during your college years. And if that isn’t hard enough, you are not allowed to relocate outside of New York once you graduate, for at least 5 years.

With Tuition Free-NY, college grads would get a chance to start out with lower student debt, which is at a all time high this year. Assemblyman James Skoufis, whose sponsoring the legislation, hopes that this will keep students in the state, and not have NYC lose it’s intellect and income.

Honestly, with the amount of loans I owe, I’m on my knees praying that this legislation is passed. But then again, while I’d gladly take community service, over paying thousands of dollars, I’m not so sure how I feel about being forced to stick around in NYC, for the next 5 years. That’s a long time, especially when you have no idea what the future holds.

I guess the real question is, do the pro’s out way the negative?