For college students, May means cramming for exams, wrestling with microfiche, and gobbling No Doz by the fistful. For high-school students entering senior year, May means campus visits, application essays, and those confounding SAT analogies. For us at Y-Life, it means the release of our annual "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" survey.

But this year's 100 Most Wired Colleges is different. Why? Because this year, as an online-only exclusive, we're bringing you the rankings for the top 200 most wired colleges.

Of course, going to college in a wired world goes way beyond whose school has the best network. The Web is the biggest boon to studying since the invention of coffee, and has made "distance learning" a reality. Unfortunately it has also thrown open the Pandora's box of easy cheating and plagiarism. To address these issues we've rounded up the Web's top 10 study resources, looked at the facts and fiction of distance learning, and compiled a report on the state of Web plagiarism.

But we all know college isn't all about studying, so in that spirit we paid a visit to the fun side of the wired world, checking out the country's most wired dorm, and rounding up the most remarkable online campus gadgets (laundrycam anyone?). Finally, we spoke with America's favorite college freshman, Keri Russell (of Felicity fame) about how she's learned about the Web on the job.

We hope you enjoy the package we've put together. And to the schools that didn't make the cut this year, remember: There's always Wired Colleges 2000.

On to the Rankings...