I'm not trying to brag but if you're questioning the content of the blog and my writing capabilities maybe you should check out The College Blog Network's hotlist:
...Thanks everyone. I couldn't do it without you! (...or spamming the site...) Top 6 posts ain't too shabby huh? And the 9th post, by DJ David Gallant, is a UNH Alum. So what I'm saying is that UNH completely runs train on everyone in the blogging world. Suck on that UMaine!
Let me tell you though, I was given the chance to checkout the beta version (whatever that means) of TCBN's new website, collegeblender, and it is awesome. It completely blows the current TCBN out of the water. Good work guys!
It's Wednesday evening already, which means that tomorrow is thirsty Thursday all you future alcoholics. Just kidding, you already are! But in all seriousness, I came across these stats yesterday and I would like to share them with you:
Deaths/year by tobacco: 440,000 (Center for Disease control)
Deaths/year by poor dieting & inactivity: 400,000 (US Dept of Health and Human Services)
Deaths/year by alcohol: 85,000 (Journal of the American Medical Association)
Deaths/year by marijuana: 0 (US Drug Abuse Warning Network)
I think you are all smart enough here to make some connections so that is all I have to say on that topic.
Hey, how about that power outage today? I still had to sit in class for an hour and a half in the dark. You have no idea how hard it was to not fall asleep. School has been happening now for 3 1/2 weeks I have officially fallen into "drone mode." Drone mode is when you wake up and the next thing you know you're in the middle of a huge lecture and you have no recollection of walking to the building or anything the professor has said. It's like in driver's ED when they talk about "high way hypnosis." Drone mode is aided by drinking coffee all day and then half a bottle of Nyquil before you go to bed. I have a feeling alcohol doesn't help either. For example this morning I woke up, took a shower, ate at HOCO and then read at the library for two hours. When I got back to my dorm I didn't remember leaving the library or walking back at all. Luckily I did remember most of what I read.
So, this weekend I'll be heading north to Orono, Maine to visit a friend from high school. I plan on terrorizing the UMaine campus and then writing about it on the blog next week. Because of my departure I may not have a blog post on Thursday or Friday so I apologize in advance. Also, for those of you who read my Tuesday columns in TNH, I have already started my next piece. it will be my first one to be highly opinionated and bias like my blog so I am very excited to see how that goes. Keep an eye out for next Tuesday's issue.
Bigs news for the blog, yesterday's post is up to number 3 on The College Blog Network blog-wire hotlist. The University of Nonsensical Happenings is also ranked as the number 1 comedy blog ...cough*with 3 thumbs up*cough... The site is basically a directorial for college blogs across the country, so I'm pretty pumped about that. If any of you are new readers, I hope I gained some because yesterday was my highest page hit view counter of the semester, I have a facebook account for the blog. Feel free to friend request the New Hampshirite if you wish to stalk me even more.
On Friday April 10th, our school paper, The New Hampshire, gave this blog a “thumbs up” in the “Thumbs Up Thumbs Down” forum. Prior to that article the blog had 492 visits and 25 people had voted “yes” (meaning they attend UNH) in the pole. At the point the blog had been out for 11 days. As of the moment I am typing this the page hits have increased to 700. The page also gained an additional 20 “yes” votes. That is 208 visits in 3 days, or about 68 hits a day (increase of 23 hits/day). I actually have 1,692 page views. A view is counted every time someone opens the page; a visit is a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views. According to sitemeter.com I have averaged 187 hits per day with the average person visiting 3.7 times a day. The average reader spends just under 9 minutes per page view. During this time I have also received a shout out on robotbitesman.com (click the picture to enter the site) and I created an entry on thecollegeblognetwork.com. What does all of this mean?
The bump does exist, but I am afraid it is nowhere near that of Stephan Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and the Mike Huckabee situation. It is known that Jon Stewart made Conan, Conan made Colbert and Colbert made Huckabee. Therefor Stewart made Huckabee, because without him there would be no Conan or Colbert. So who made me? Was it TNH, RBM or TCBN? I have a feeling not enough people care to make it an epic battle so I will award TNH with the bump because they found me. I have a connection to the people at RBM and I created the entry on TCBN, but TNH discovered me. Congratulations TNH, you are the champions, actually we are the champions...
