Dear loyal readers,

A year ago, I was sitting in the Herald Office with the then-soon-to-be Editor in Chief (and my longtime friend) Rachel Achs trying to figure out what I would do for the Herald ’09-’10. We floated a few ideas, but we kept coming back to a concept we’d kicked around the office many 4 am’s over cold Papa John’s: a Herald blog. We loved reading IvyGate, Bwog, and Under the Button and wanted a similar outlet for Yale news. We decided to found the Bullblog.

I recruited four (later, five) of smartest, wittiest, coolest people I knew to write. We launched September 10th to coincide with the year’s first issue of the Herald. We could never have predicted we would have gotten so far in just eight months. Hundreds of thousands of people have visited the site. We’ve been linked to by the Washington Post, Gawker, the New York Observer, Jezebel, IvyGate, the Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, and the New York Times. We’ve broken stories from the Grand Strategy admit list and next fall’s Dramat mainstage to James Franco’s impending Yale career and the Student-Teacher Sex Ban. We have become the world’s definitive source of Sam Tsui news and gossip. But most of all, we’ve stayed true to our original intention: we’ve trained a light-hearted and entertaining (but critical) eye on undergraduate life at Yale.

As proud as I am of the work we’ve done over the past year, we still have a long way to go. There are many corners of this University that have too long been “untouchable.” Eventually, we’ll touch them all. But by “we,” I mean the Bullblog—which, starting soon, will not include me, at least not every day.

But I’m leaving the Bullblog in very good—indeed, sublimely good—hands. Taking over for me as Editor-in-Chief is Miranda Lewis, this year’s official number one most frequent poster and one of Yale’s best journalists. Taking over for my great friend Chloe Searcy as Managing Editor is Michael Gocksch, the Bullblog’s best-looking editor. Chloe and I will stay on as Senior Editors, which will entail (we hope) very little work, while the brilliant Gabe Bloomfield and Gabrielle Karol will move on to bigger and better things in their well-deserved retirement from Bullblog editorship. Taking over for us four seniors are an amazing quartet of underclassmen, whose writing I am excited to read every day. These superstars are:

Justine Bunis ’13

Clayton Erwin ’12

Sarah Matthes ’13

Alex Shaheen ’13

They’ll get their due introduction in good time. For now, trust me when I say they’re top notch.

As for the next few months—we’ll probably post very, very occasionally. If you were disappointed by our volume over Winter Break, you haven’t seen us in summer mode. But we’ll be back in the fall stronger, meaner and funnier (and, website-wise, better designed!) than ever.

Thank you for a year of commenting, reading, and being good sports. It’s been the best.

Yours in love and gratitude,

Joe Satran

Editor in Chief of the Bullblog