First Blog of Spring Semester!

In my time of boredom between classes and assorted work I thought of an intriguing idea for a blog. I decided that to open up the spring season of blogs, what would be better than blogging about the person who makes us blog. I came to the decision to blog about Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin. For reference, I will only disclose facts I have obtained through legal internet browsing.

Searching for ‘Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin’ on Facebook will provide very explicit and unique results. There is only ONE Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin, and we are lucky enough to have her as our English instructor. I find the fact that there is only one Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin very interesting, but not surprising because of the inclusion of a middle name. I broadened my search to ‘Julia Tillinghast-Akalin’. Lo and behold, the search provided identical results, minus the fact that our teacher has multiple Facebook accounts. In few words I can describe Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin as, “one of a kind, literally”.

I then traveled to the popular search engine site, Google. Unlike my previous search I wanted to specify the results toward a specific area, blogging. My search of “"Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin" "blog"” gave me the following results.

Results 1 - 10 of about 53 for "julia clare tillinghast-akalin" "blog". (0.22 seconds)

53 results is rather impressive considering a search of my own name and hometown only returned 10, 2 of which pertain to a murder case in New Jersey and a Mexican Restaurant. I was intrigued by the high result number in the search for Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin’s Blogs, so I decided to conduct further investigation. Following multiple links, I consistently ended up on what appeared to be Julia’s own blog site. Apparently Julia’s blog profile had 580 total views which is quite a large amount considering I didn’t think that many people blogged at all. I quickly came to my attention that Julia is a very “accomplished” blogger. This is when I quickly changed the intention of my blog from an investigation to a critiquing.

“30 POEMS IN 30 DAYS”
I thought the idea of having people post their favorite poems for 30 days was a very interesting and pretty different. The concept seemed to work effectively for the first few days of the 30. Some people posted deep heartfelt poems whereas other left quick, basic, simple poems. Unfortunately as the days came to pass the idea began to run low on followers. By the 9th day the blog ceased to post new ideas and as quickly as it began it had died.
My Grade of “30 Poems in 30 Days” = C+

“GENIUS SEX-POSITIVE POLITICALLY SAVVY FUNNY ADVICE”
To my EXTREME disappointment, nothing was even blogged about. Simply put, “A HUGE LETDOWN.”
My Grade of “GENIUS SEX-POSITIVE POLITICALLY SAVVY FUNNY ADVICE” = F

“BLOGGING MAKES ME NERVOUS”
At first look seemed to be a random assortment of poems pictures and suggestions to other sites. As I read into each poem posted I noticed the sophistication and individuality in each one. “Meditations in an Emergency” was a great touch on the blog. I found the mix tape website rather comical because it consists of playlists from “loves and ex-loves”. I had no idea what the picture of the horse was for but its complete unpredictable appearance gave me a laugh. I can only wish there were more entries in the blog.
My Grade of “BLOGGING MAKES ME NERVOUS” = A

“TAKEN FROM TURKEY”
“TAKEN FROM TURKEY” is a very interesting collection of pictures from Julia’s trip to Turkey. I found myself sifting through each picture and title understanding a small portion of Turkey and its culture. After I looked at all the pictures I noticed the caption at the top of the blog page which enlightened me not only that Turkey had also modernized and contained shopping malls, offices, and such, but also had many aspects of beauty that helped Julia cheer up.
My Grade of “TAKEN FROM TURKEY” = B

“blogging makes me nervous (2)”
This blog had only 2 entries, both of which were poems. Both poems I found to be above average. However, the imagery used in the first poem created distinct scenery in my mind and I was relatively impressed by it. Not much to say about this blog as it was short and pretty average aside from some aspects of the first poem.
My Grade of “blogging makes me nervous (2)” = C

I found Julia’s blog posts to be very unique, similar to her name. I think that the collection of entries across the 5 blogs was one of a kind, some executed better than others.
My OVERALL Grade of Julia’s Compilation of Blogs = B- (Ironically the same grade I received in her class last semester)