Lost University - Introduction

LU: Introduction 101 and the launch of ABC's new fan site. More than just an interactive community.

For those that know me (mostly online friends vs. offline friends - funny that), LOST is amongst the top of my favorite shows. I have already begun making many friends from ABC's latest promotional site: LOST University AKA: "LU", or simply visit: http://www.lostuniversity.org/
For a complete listing of all LU courses, click on the "LU" logo. It's comprehensive with fun courses for LOST fans.

At first glance, Lost University or LU appears as a mock site with the sole purpose to lure fans to visit ABC's latest fan site and dazzle them with familiar imagery and the concept of a "University" environment. In fact this is only partially true.

I first signed up on ABC's promotional site: LOST University a couple of months ago under the auspice of an "Open Enrollment" invitation. Sure enough a week or so ago, I received that invitation via email. I navigated directly to LU. Much to my surprise, many had already "pre-registered" and taken their evaluation or placement test or entry exam... the very same day the invitations had been sent out via email.

Not wanting to get behind in the slightest bit, I too took my entry exam. I like to think of myself as a "know-it-all" wanna be of LOST the series. But apparently, after taking my entrance exam, I found out that my knowledge was lacking. Twenty-three questions in all revolving around key characters, peripheral observations of background data, interpretation of symbols or hieroglyphs and a few other things I can't remember. I won't mention my score here, because I'm still too embarrassed over it (between 16 & 18 out of 23 lol).

Shortly after establishing my rank via enrollment testing, I was taken to my "Binder" or preferences, where I uploded my AV and created my very first LU ID Card. I naturally used my online AV (Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) of Stargate Atlantis fame), and also uploaded my personal pic. to personally identify myself. I'm including them here.

After taking my exam, I immediately went into the forums section to meet fellow LOST fans. I was quite surprised at the content and structure that fellow fans had already established for communication. Again, all within an hour or two of ABC's release of invitations to open enrollment.

So far, from what I can tell from reading the EULA and ToS, all course work will only be available through LOST's Season 5 Blu-Ray interactive portal via a BDLive enabled player. Some features will be available via the web portal, However it also appears that LU staff (CarltonCuse) are making an attempt to facilitate members not having Blu Ray equipment or capabilities.

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I'll have updates on media released for class course work, as well as interesting links for content offered by other fans that are sharing their BDLive enabled player downloaded media. (http://twitter.com/JerryZambrano). Search the following tag: #LOSTUniversity.

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LOST Season 5 BluRay is scheduled to be released on: December 8, 2009

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Sorry to those of you that hoped otherwise.

;)

Jerry Zambrano (Jaredzusmc @ LU)