Oh My Blog.

Before I began my senior year, many former AP Englishers gave me a word of caution: blogging will take over your life. I laughed at their close-minded attitude. Sure, I will let Twitter or Pinterest take over my life, but the educational blather of my peers? Please. Let me return to more stimulating material, such as intellectual tweets from the account “White Girl Problems.” Blogging did not initially come easily, but with the progression of the semester, I began to actually enjoy the activity. In regards to my most well-written blog, I believe the award must go to “This Little Light of Mine.” One only has to see my use of the word “depress-fest” to automatically grant me the most well-written blog (ever?), but I also really enjoy the tone in which I set the entry. I effectively communicate the way in which I view the world around me with the help of vivid diction. With my parallels between my Michigan acceptance, the shooting in Connecticut, and the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” I create an opportunity for readers to express their grief in a way that also allows them to celebrate life. Secondly, for my most interesting blog award, I chose “Citizens Arrest!” As I made my decision, I had to think about what the descriptor ‘interesting’ really meant. Logically, I turned to Google. The search engine defined interesting as “arousing curiosity or interest; holding or catching the attention.” Although my rants about cats and North Korea certainly aroused curiosity in regards to my sanity, “Citizens Arrest!” caught my personal attention the most. The event proved so out of the ordinary to my everyday life, I still think back in bewilderment. I also think my step-by-step narration of the crime also arouses curiosity in my readers (Why did she leave? What will Mrs. E do about it? Why oh why did they receive such a ghastly punishment?!) By also relating The Great Gatsby to my blog, I hope I made my classmates look at Jay Gatsby’s offenses in a different light. To conclude this egotistical post, I chose Mairin Magnuson’s comment on my blog “The MarCATS.” Mairin confessed a love for felines equal to my own, and she also connected to my message that AP Englishers need to stop the search for deeper meaning in everyday life. The theme of empathy proved recurrent in many of my classmate’s comments: no matter how strange I made myself seem, at least a few people could connect and empathize with my life. Now when I see veteran AP English 12 students who warned me about the posts, I will concede to their argument. Blogs have provided a way to bring our class together, from our most light-hearted moments to the darkest of tragedies. And that, my friends, is the real reason for our weekly banter (insert group hug here).