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Online freshman journals appear upon many university Web sites. scholar blogs offer prospective students and parents a realistic peek into a school's agriculture in ways that viewbooks and pamphlets simply can't.

Christina Henderson's online journal of her freshman year at Furman University in Greenville, SC relateed her bonding with new dorm-mates, "stocusing" (a combination of studying and focusing) for exams, and getting involved and making her mark forward campus. "The goal for each entrance has basically been to number what's going on at Furman in consequence of the eyes of a freshman, unscripted, unrehearsed," Henderson says.

A political science major, she is united of six students whose reports put forwarded what she calls "a veritable view of what goes forward at Furman." About 30.000 population logged on every week to read Furman's freshman journals, according to The Christian Science Monitor,

THE empty with a scoop ON FRESHMAN YEAR

Alfred University, NY: alfred.edu (click forward Freshman Journals)

Bucknell University, Pa.: yearinthelife bucknelledu

Columbia society S.C.: www.columbia collegesc.edu/ journals

Furman Univ., SC: engagefurman.com

University of the Arts, Pa.: uarts.edu/admission

University of Connecticut: uconnalumni.com/ freshman journal

University of Oklahoma: ouedu/boomerbytes

University of Texas: www.utexas.edu/inside_ut/journals

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