Ask any college student attending a university in the Northeast or Midwest, and one will discover that in the world of frigid-winter academia, there is nothing worse than just missing the campus shuttle bus in 12-degree weather. Today, however, students at a handful of colleges can stay warm and cozy inside their dorm rooms while they track the location of the shuttle bus on their cell phones--all thanks to the implementation of location-aware services (LAS) on their campuses. A handful of colleges and universities are dabbling in location-aware services and discovering they have real value for campus community members and genuine appeal for students and parents. In this article, the author talks about location-aware services, applications that deliver location-based information whenever and wherever it may be needed. LAS is part of the larger location-based solutions (LBS) picture that comprises GPS-enabled mobile computing services (communication and computation via mobile devices), location-enabling services (used for user-locating), and location-aware services (IP-based applications). In a nutshell, the technology behind LAS enables people, computers, and other devices to know, within a few feet, where another is, at all times; such services or applications then allow individuals--or their devices--to make "decisions" based on that knowledge.