As college admissions officers search for ways to give prospective students a taste of life on campus, several institutions have hit upon a creative strategy: enlisting student diarists to do the work for them. At Furman University, for example, six freshmen maintain online journals in which they describe classes, clubs, parties, and other often-mundane aspects of their college experiences. The diaries are surprisingly broad-ranging: Furman administrators give the students free rein to post whatever they like.
