As many of you might know from my Facebook update, I recently printed out 363 pictures from my months abroad.
And since I am the math fiend I am, I'm going to do some statistics about my semester abroad.
My blog during the semester had 459 pictures on it. There were 172 posts spanning from November 18, 2009 through May 28th, 2010. There were posts daily from December 29 to that May 28. That's just shy of five months. (I mean, it's nothing compared to my sister who has written in her journal daily since, like, 6th grade. And I'm not even exaggerating that much. And she's out of college now. She has been journalling daily for, like, nearly half her life.)
Anyway, I wanted to do a word count analysis, but Google Analytics had this to share. It's a pdf of all of the site visits, where they come from (mostly the US, but Qatar is in second!), and how many from Dec. to May. (That's right, over 2,420 visits. 2,421 to be exact.)
My most popular posts were Don't You Wish You Had A Dial, or Day 21, I'd Like to Buy That, or Day 12, and Keep Away, or Day 88. Now, why those posts had more views, I can only venture some guesses (the first referenced a Kuwaiti politician and a new restaurant people want reviews on, the second and third I think I put a links to on Facebook).
Search terms was another interesting one that Analytics put in a different report. Now, who in the world searched "corriene's semester abroad" 6 times and kept finding me? I guess the good news is that "corrine's semester abroad" (7) eventually got them to me.
Now, what am I going to do with all this data? Well, for the most part, I think it is interesting, but that's all it is going to do, is be interesting.
For some of my blogposts, however, some of the memorable and well-written days, they will be printed out and put in a scrapbook. That's were the 363 pictures come into play.
If you want to see some of the pictures I chose, you can go to my album. They aren't all there... so I guess sometime after this summer is over, you can ask to see my scrapbook to see them.
By the way, anyone seen a small herd of large white envelopes? It appears that my best laid plan of sending papers home through inter-campus mail (yes, it works campus-to-campus too!) might have been thwarted by mail forwarding from Pittsburgh back to Doha. They are currently... in the ether.
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