Colleges are finally jumping into the blogging scene, according to this article from eSchool News [BugMeNot]:

In the never-ending drive to attract new students to their institutions, some college and university officials now look to student blogs as a fresh addition to the recruiter’s toolbox…

Given all the administrative functions a university’s web site must fulfill, school marketers and other campus officials are realizing that prospective students have few ways to learn what it feels like to be a student at the institution. And that’s where blogs can help, they say.

Yup, school-sanctioned blogs are going to give you the straight-up truth about real college life…

“Second, they had to be good kids,” he said. “They were students referred to us by faculty [and other trusted university officials]. We picked the good ones, had the dean of students approve them, et cetera.”

After the students were chosen, Chisholm said, his staff “put the fear of God into them.”

“We reminded them that everyone they know–faculty, boyfriend or girlfriend, your mother, your RA, the rest of your family, too–is going to read it. Then we let them know that we’re never going to take [the blogs] down,” he said. “If you’re doing tequila night, getting blitzed, we don’t want to hear about it. And you don’t [want to write about it,] either, because one day, when you’re applying for a job, your boss is going to read about it.”

So basically, you get to read about what college life is actually like; minus the “life” part, of course. It’ll be like the official college brochure, except with more spelling and grammar errors.

A lot of Berkeley students have their own blogs/journals hosted on sites like LiveJournal and Xanga. If you really want to know what college kids do and think (at least Asian females), then I suggest that you check these blogs out. Let me excerpt from some random Cal blogs, with names omitted to protect the guilty.

19 Aug 2005

i really want to cheat on alcoholedu, but i dont know how… at this point, im just letting the video run by itself while i surf the net

this is really not the way i want to spend my last nights at home…serves me right, i guess

Heh, I’d like to see that get on an official Cal blog. Let’s move on:

Friday, August 26, 2005

i walked alot today.. finally didn’t eat with [excised] coz the canteen was closed for the function thing i guess? (shitzzzz, i was starving), i went to the calapalooza with [excised], woot a sunny weather, but poor since we had salad for lunch, i was reli reli hungry..there were clubs, association n such.. i signed up for a few, i wish to join the hiphop one,.. n i guess im gona go to the orientation of HKSA, wondering how it will be like~!..honkies…, [excised] brought me to ikea since i need a bin for trash (like me..jk), nice friend.. im telling here.. shopped around with [excised] afterwards.. shit.. i guess i’ve spent much these days, i reli reli love the two caps that i bought!! kinda cheap.. CHEERSSSSSS

Hmm, there were some less readable posts out there, but I’ll spare you guys… On to our final subject:

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Getting mugged is such a bitch. Glad I at least socked that mother fucker in the face before he made off with my wallet and cellphone.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

I really need to stop making promises when I’m drunk.
…I think I promised [excised] I’d let her top me.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Wow, I found really really REALLY good porn today. I’m watching it with my breakfast this morning.

College life.