100!!

This is it! Yayyyyyyyy! I can't believe I made it! The road was tough, long, and certainly not easy to walk down, but I did it! 100 blog posts! 100 posts regarding the world all made by me. I feel proud. I feel accomplished. I feel relieved! I am going to miss this class and all the people in it, but I am happy to report that my obligation to it officially ends the moment I click "publish." Like I said before, I have every intention of starting my own blog after this is over. It has really helped me sort out how I feel about certain things, and I am grateful for that. Blogging is a great tool and is one that I think is almost necessary in this modern age we live in. To blogging! I am done! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Thank you, and goodnight :)

Almost There

I am sooooooooo close! This is my penultimate blog post, and I have to say, I am relieved. It can be difficult to make the quota when you didn't space yourself out enough time to complete it. It has kind of driven me crazy to finish, but all in all I had a great time. I am trying to think of some pressing topic I want to discuss, but anything "deep" escapes me right now. I think I have learned what a great tool blogging is this year. I like to read blogs, but I never really thought of starting my own until now. I like just writing down what is bothering me through the day, and getting my head cleared that way. It is a catharsis, and it is a valuable tool. I don't imagine anyone is going to read by rambling, but it is nice to write, even if it's not for an audience.

Posts

So it is eight in the morning, and today all the blogs are due. Luckily, Professor Baldwin said he would check at 2pm so I still have time. It has been an absolutely crazy week! I know I am going to get it done, one post at a time! Wish me luck!

Time

Is there anything more valuable than time? I have been sitting in my office for five hours now, and while I've gotten a lot of blog posts done, I can't help but feel like I've wasted a lot of time sitting down. It makes me feel so unproductive to just sit down staring at a computer all day. If I added up all the hours I spend each week doing this, the number would be depressing. It is my goal to be active at least an hour a day. I'm officially off work and now I can get back to studying! (yay)

Repetitive

Is anyone reading this? I sometimes hope that we have a large audience, but other times, I hope we do not. I like the idea that I can get my thoughts out on any given subject, and potentially get feedback, but other times, it feels too personal for anyone to be reading. It makes me uncomfortable to think people are looking at what I have to say. It is a strange contradiction to want to be heard, and to want to hide. Perhaps I should adopt a pseudonym so I can maintain privacy while still being heard...

Blogging

I don't know why I am such an inconsistent blogger. I thoroughly enjoy it every time I do it, but for some reason, I always wait until the last minute. Now I must write post after post to fulfill my quota, and search for blogworthy material. I kind of feel like after awhile, I am grasping at straws. I like that on this blog, almost everything in life is blog worthy, and that is pretty cool. I really like blogging about my life in general, so perhaps I will start one after this class is finished. Blogging has become somewhat of a 21st century memoir or journal. I like the idea that one day, I can look back on my life at a specific day in time. I can see what I did almost daily, and get a sense of what kind of person I was when I was younger. I like that it forces us to be somewhat reflective on our lives. I think just the act of writing down how we feel can help us overcome things, and gain perspective. I just need a general theme, and I think I will be good to go! To blogging!

Finals!

Ugh, Finals. I am never a happy camper this time of the year. Of course, we should all practice good study habits all year long, but even with great preparation, one must study her butt off if she wants to do well. I can hardly even see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I know it is there. I just have to get through four more finals, and once they are over, I will relax. Until then however, I am working on rereading all of my notes, textbooks, and finishing all of these blog posts. Wish me luck, and I wish the same for you. :)

Blogging

I forgot how fun blogging can be when you have something to say. It's easy to become resentful of something when it's viewed as a chore, but this isn't so bad. I don't now if I have anything great to say at the moment, but I like to know I have somewhere to go if I do. Sometimes I feel like I can't come up with anything to write about, and then resort to the Jerry Seinfeldesque way of asking "what's the deal with...?" Oh well, I'm sure I'll be back on later when I actually have a coherent and somewhat intelligent, albeit, unorginal thought.

One World

What I've learned from the internet these past few years is that we are all more similar than we are different. Sure, there are a milion different websites for a million different interests, but the number of hits a website devoted to even the most obscure hobbies show that there are more people like us than we think. That isn't to say that we aren't all unique, as our fingerprints prove, but that even in the midst of so much diversity in this world, we all have a common thread. Music, movies, sports, and even food show us that people share more similaries than differences. The items listed above cross all borders, enter into the minds of all ethnicities, and unite us on the web. It is pretty amazing to see someone from Europe chatting with someone from Long Island via the internet. This is a great tool our generation has been lucky enough to have been blessed with, and I hope we use it for understanding other cultures.

Bloggingggggggg

I am blogging. I don't know what to blog about but I shall blog anyway. Blogging is fun when you have a direction about what you want to blog about. A blog can be a vital tool in capturing your day to day life. It would be fun to have a blog to look back on one day. Blogging is a great way to get things off your chest. Blogging is also a great way to earn an A! Have I mentioned how much I love blogging?

Bloggin

I am blogging again today! Wahooo! Even though this is a requirement for the class, I think everyone in the class likes to know that they have a place where they can just say what they think. The things we do online these days seem to be all about narcissism, so I guess this just adds to the list for most of us. We keep hearing that everybody lives interesting lives in class because these are interesting times. I still have a hard time believing that my life is blogworthy sometimes, but I suppose sometimes i'm interesting enough (I hope).

So Vain

There is something about all of today's social networking sites and blogs that seems terribly self-centered. Call me modest, but I'm not sure if my day to day activities are blog worthy. I'm not being self-deprecating when I say this because I do believe that I have my own unique perspective on things, just as we all do, but at what point does this sharing seem like overkill? I don't need to know via someone's Twitter that they are in the shower, or brushing their teeth, or eating a bowl of cereal. The whole thing just seems a little too self-indulgent to me. Even this post about this topic seems to emphasize my point. I can't say that anyone will read this, and I do believe my opinion matters, but where is the line drawn?