We'll leave the Great Beginnings blog up for a few more days. It's still getting close to 200 hits a day, but our last full day of posting was Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. By now, the new semester is upon us and the only thing left to do is SETTLE IN AND GET TO WORK, n'est pas!
Stats can be fun, though. Our back-to-campus blog was an experiment that earned its readership. We'll register 3,500 hits by the end of business. The most popular post was the introduction that explained our project. But the second most-popular post? A link to a story about how to decorate your dorm room with holiday lights. Apparently, news-you-can-use!
Being helpful was a major goal of this flash blog. To that end, a special thank you to Laura Volden of the Registrar's Office and Kristi Powell of the UAA Consortium Library. Volden's tips on add/drop were in the top three posts for Friday, the day of the deadline. Powell's insider secrets to the library, especially the little-known services students can use, was so useful it earned a mention in Green & Gold.
Hats off to Nikkie Viotto who posted while traveling with the Seawolf Volleyball squad in Hawaii and California. They say if you need something done, ask a busy person. So true! And what fun to hear from the team, even if we couldn't sit in the bleachers and root for them!
The UAA Campus Bookstore offered tips from three seasoned students. Thanks to Joycelyn the magnificent, Justin Hanson in TechZone and international student Gor Galstyan. IT Services offered a behind-the-scenes reality show of Spirit coding the new UAA homepage!
Personal stories were fun to read, too, from The Northern Light columnist Kate Lindsley's apartment-hunting from Connecticut and UAA parking misadventures to Joseph Selmont's procrastination confessions. But then, there were always those tantalizing tips on caffeine remedies from Christina Grimsley, the best-known barista on UAA's whole campus. And given our coffee consumption, that says something!
We can't mention everyone who contributed or this post will be as long as our whole blog, with upwards of 85 posts during the first two weeks of school!
Thank you, bloggers! And thank you, readers. All comments and suggestions for future improvement are welcome! Just hit the comment button and share.
Have a great semester!
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