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The Blog is closed to new content. 

You CANNOT add new text or comments. To read contributions made before the blog was closed in 2012: Click on the “Contributors” drop down menu located on the right side of this page to select a contributor by name. 

This Blog stopped collecting and posting contributions and comments in fall of 2012. The original text below, including invitations to contribute and comment, remains as a record of how the Blog was organized in 2010-2012 while it was open to contributions and comments.

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The Blog is to open to you, and to anyone who wants to explore
 emotions,  observations, and opinions about life at UCI
from the point of view of those who live there
Most writers are UCI undergraduates and alumni. 

Read the personal, social, and political concerns of those who contributed to the Blog between summer 2010 and June 2012. 

Hear about how they found friends, groups, and a community at UCI, commuted on the 405, participated in a protest.  See how first generation students bridged the gap between family and college life.  Much of the great diversity of student lives is here – along with tips on how to capture the best couch in Cyber A and a freshman’s story of a late-night walk in Aldrich park.

We are leaving the Blog as it was when the last contribution was posted in Fall 2012.  We removed only the links to Facebook and Flickr accounts and contact information for students who worked on the project over the years.  Their names are in the About pages, and so is project history.

We have enjoyed assembling these records of life at UCI.
Eileen Lee, Blog Project Director, UCI Graduate 2012
Frank Cancian, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
fcancian@uci.edu
9nov2012 

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 go to the Table of Contents tab above. 

Or, start with the last post – immediately below.