Great. When I asked my assistant for an image of "Top Ten" this is what he pulls up. I tell you, good helper monkeys are hard to find!

Great. When I asked my assistant for an image of "Top Ten" this is what he pulls up. I tell you, good helper monkeys are hard to find!

Top 10 Songs of the Year.  Top 10 Athletes of the Year.  Top 10 Strains of H1N1.

The end of the year always brings enough of those “Top Ten” lists to gag a horse.  It’s doubly worse when it’s the close of a decade.  (And yes, Mr. Calendar Expert Guy, I know the decade doesn’t technically end until after 2010 b/c there was indeed a year 0 but I’m going with the flow here…) But sometimes, there’s that moment as rare as me being able to tell the Olsen twins apart when a Top Ten list comes along that is the standard of true genius.  Well, in this case it’s a “Top Fifteen.”  And the “genius” is mostly b/c I’m quoted in it several times.

That said, if you’re a sucker for lists like me, it’s worth a flip through.  Click here to check out the Decade’s Fifteen Hottest Colleges according to The Daily Beast!