Meredith Vieira loves her blog! Rosie O'Donnell has one, Ellen Degeneres has one, and now, well, she wants one too. The folks at Mediabistro have been following her blogging career closely — we learned of her venture through TV Newser, and are now being made aware of the reason for her Today show absence via FBNY.

Vieira was taking her son Ben on a college tour. And boy is Vieira proud of him for staying level headed and keeping his focus in perspective. Not like she did. See, before becoming the shining star of The View and Today, Vieira has faced a few broken dreams along the way. Like not getting into Harvard.

I say that as somebody who desperately wanted to go to Harvard University. Instead of Harvard, I went to Tufts University; certainly not shabby but it wasn’t my first choice. I wasted a lot of energy holding on to some Harvard fantasy– I even went so far as to hitch into Harvard Square every Saturday and “pretend’ that I was really a Radcliffe gal.

Sniffle, sniffle. See, kids. That's why you set your dreams a tad bit lower. Aim for say NYU or Northwestern … or Cornell. (Sarcastic joke cue: insert laugh). Any university that keeps telling the students "someday we'll be a real Ivy" even though it's never gonna' happen. That way you won't ever feel disappointed with your lame Tufts degree and crappy $10 million a year salary.

It's not about the bumper sticker [Meredith Today]