College Student Fights Parasite Eating Her Eyeball After Sleeping with Her Contacts

This should make you think twice about sleeping in your contact lenses.The new episode of Animal Planet’sMonsters Inside Metells the terrifying, true story of Melanie, an Iowa college student whose opthamologist discovered she had a rare parasite eating her eye after she complained of light sensitivity and pain.“What makes the Acanthamoeba paraside so dangerous is their ability to burrow deep into the tissue of the eyeball,” biologist Dan Riskin says in a clip exclusive to PEOPLE.

College Student Found Strangled to Death in Parking Garage — and Person of Interest Is in Custody

Photo: Facebook Police in Chicago have announced that a person of interest is in custody in connection with the strangulation death of a University of Illinois at Chicago student over the weekend. On Saturday morning, the body of 19-year-old Ruth George was found in the backseat of a car parked in a campus parking garage,according to UIC police. George’s family had reported her missing and UIC police were able to locate her after tracking her cell phone.

College Student Gets Assigned Same Dorm Room Where Her Mom Lived 33 Years Ago: 'We Both Screamed'

Sarah & Luara Bowling.Photo:Courtesy of Miami University Courtesy of Miami University An Ohio college student got a big surprise when he found out she’s living in theexact same dorm roomher mother lived in 33 years ago. Sarah Bowling and her mother Laura recently realized that the 18-year-old college freshman had been assigned the same room in Emerson Hall at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, according toTodayand apress releasefrom the school.

College Student Goes Viral After He's Caught Wearing Shorts in Brutal Cold: 'Mom Would Be Mad'

A Minnesota college student braved the brutal cold gripping the Midwest in a pair of shorts on Tuesday –– and he doesn’t want his mom to know. In a photoaccompanying a recentStar Tribunereport on the freezing temperatures in the region, a University of Minnesota is shown crossing University Avenue Southeast wearing a winter coat and a pair of shorts. The photo’s caption revealed why the student declined to be identified in the picture.

College Student Goes Viral for Crocheting at Kansas Football Game: 'Not All Heroes Wear Capes'

One of the most memorable moments from the matchup between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday didn’t occur on the football field. Before kickoff at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium,ESPNcameras caught a lone woman in the stands, completely focused on doing something you don’t see very often at a football game — crocheting. The footage — which has been viewed almost 2 million times on Twitter — quickly made the then-unidentified woman an Internet celebrity.