UPDATE: This contest is now over.  Thank you to all who participated, I will announce the winner within 24 hours.  Check your email to see if you are the winner!

Finally the time has arrived!  I present to you the first ever ZCL GIVEAWAY!  And man is this a prize to win!  2 HP Laptops, an awesome Timbuk2 backpack, and some cool software to sync um up!  This great package is easily worth over $1000, and it’s all going to one lucky winner!

ZCL will be holding a contest to determine who to give all this awesome stuff to.  There can only be one winner, so the contest will be determined as follows.

Here’s how to enter: (you must do each step, unless you don’t have a twitter account…)

1. Subscribe to Zen College Life’s RSS feed (or mailing list).
2. Follow me on Twitter @ibrahimZCL.  Then Tweet about the contest, linking to this page.
3. Leave a comment below (tips to improve ZCL, compliments, share a secret, or anything else you wanna say).
4. Tell me a funny college experience you had, and draw a picture in Paint. This can be long or short, but the funnier the better.  Also you will be judged on the hilarity of your Paint picture (quality doesn’t matter, only hilariousness).  Pictures have to be relevant to the story, and rest assured the winner’s picture and story will be shared on ZCL.  Email story and picture attached to:

contest [at] zencollegelife [dot] com

So that’s all it takes.  This contest will not be random, so you’ll actually have to try and impress me (with the story and picture, not the comments).

What You’ll Win:

These two computers together will satisfy all of your computing needs.  The first laptop is the HP Mini, a netbook.  Read my review of this awesome laptop [intlink id="1816" type="post" target="_blank"]here[/intlink].

The next laptop is the big bad HP DV6.  This is possibly the most powerful laptop I’ve ever used.  Read my review [intlink id="1808" type="post" target="_blank"]here[/intlink].

The software that is going to keep these awesome machines in sync is called Syncables.

And the amazing backpack to hold it all is the Timbuk2 Hemlock.  While I didn’t write a review on the bag, I can honestly say it’s the coolest, most hardcore backpack I’ve ever seen.  It holds more, is more comfortable, and is more secure than any other backpack I’ve used. Take a look below.

This contest will run until 11:59 pm on September 8th.  I will decide on the winner and announce it within 24 hours of contest end, along with sharing the story and picture to the readers.  Stay tuned and check out the giveaway site for information about other sites giving away the same package.