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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Thursday, November 11, 2004

UNIVERSITY DIARIES A ONE-YEAR VETERAN


Today marks the first anniversary of University Diaries. About a week ago, UD overcame her fear and for the first time checked her usage. Thousands of visits were made last month, and she is overwhelmed and grateful.

UD is aware that given the eternality and amusement of certain university-related phenomena (diploma mills, dirty college sports, plagiarism), she must resist the cheap low easy road of writing mainly about them. While stand-out instances of these things will continue to be chronicled in UD, this weblog will maintain its interest in all manner of higher education material. As always, UD appreciates it when readers email her with suggestions, corrections, whatever.




UD does not do sentiment well. But she asks you to imagine her today as very like the Baroness in The Sound of Music [see UD post, 10/18/2004], as she stands in the Austrian night upon the spectacular von Trapp balcony and says: "I've enjoyed each and every moment."

Posted at: 11/11/2004 08:25:00 AM