Harlan Cohen was born naked. He grew up clothed in the suburbs in Chicago until growing up and heading off to college. The youngest of three brothers, Harlan was the last to go to college. Harlan landed at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He expected it to be an easy transition -- he was wrong.

He got dumped by his high school long distance girlfriend, he didn't get into the fraternity he had been rushing, and he didn't find his place in college. In high school he was a big man on campus -- in college he was lost. His grades were the only bright spot (he took refuge in class). After dealing with all the highs and lows of college life, he eventually found his place late second semester. Only now, he had already decided to transfer. It wasn't the college -- it was him. The next year, he headed to Indiana University, the same college both his brothers attended, a more comfortable fit. He decided to do his freshman year over again. The second time was easier. He was comfortable with the uncomfortable. He knew what to expect. He rushed a fraternity, found a few groups of friends, got involved in clubs and organizations, even found a few girlfriend along the way. Even when he felt out of place he felt comfortable because he knew that was normal. No one told him. And that's where this passion for college life began.

At Indiana University Harlan began writing for his college newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student. After a summer at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (where he got the idea), Harlan returned to campus and began writing his Help Me, Harlan! advice column. The goal was to become one of the only male syndicated advice columnists in the country. Over the years, Harlan's advice column spread across the country like a bad rash at a nudist camp. His advice column appeared in local daily and college newspapers across the country.

Today, Harlan is one of the youngest and only male syndicated advice columnists around. His Help Me, Harlan! column can be read by over 4 million readers weekly appearing in such newspapers as The Dallas Morning News, the Seattle Times, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, and many other local daily and college newspapers. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, the Chicago Tribune, Chicken Soup for The Teenage Soul III, and many other publications. His insight and wisdom has been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, Details magazine, and Seventeen Magazine.

He is the founder of Rejection Awareness Week and the president of The International Rejection/Risk-Taking Project. He is also a speaker who has visited over 300 college campuses. He is a musician who has just released his first album, Fortunate Accidents. And he is the author of the books, Campus Life Exposed: Advice from the Inside and The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issue You Might Run Into in College. He resides in Chicago with a wife, a puppy, and quadruplets. Actually, we're just kidding about the quadruplets.