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We mourned the passing of College OTR’s best writers, honked noisily into kleenexes at Beetle’s departure in May, and raised a brow at Dangierre’s disappearance from the collective blogosphere that same semester. But waddaya know? New voices on the internet are never lacking.
Vacaville’s newspaper’s cobbled together a team of California college bloggers to cover college life and its related shenanigans. Nah, we don’t know where that is either. But hey! Melanie Garcia’s blog talks about tree woks, midterms and the raptures of asphalt research. Looks infrequently updated, but quotation marks around words like drag-queen and transsexual? That’s something new. (We say, neutrally.)
Sarah Morrison, an Edinburgh native, spent a year studying abroad at Cal, and, incidentally, reporting on student life for the Daily Cal. Now she’s written a concise, insightful overview of her experience for The Guardian. Spark Notes version: American students are turbocharged versions of their pint-swilling, pub-dwelling cohorts. Represent!
Image Source: laughingsquid under Creative Commons
Sarah Morrison on her year abroad at UC Berkeley [Guardian]
Reporter U [Blog Central]
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