Well... That was Easy

In my long illustrious career of nine blog posts (including this one), I’ve realized that it’s easy. You might as well call me the next Andrew Sullivan. It’s been sort of fun getting to write how we want. I can write in the first person, I can put my tone into pieces of writing. The only A I got on a paper junior year was one that I could talk in the first person. Its way easier, you can literally take your thoughts and let them fly out your fingers and onto the computer screen. The most challenging part of blogging thus far has been the length aspect. A 250-word post is by no means long, but for a blog it seems like a hurdle roughly two feet off the ground: its not hard to get over, but you still have to pick your knee up.

The most surprising thing is directly related to length and the nature of blogging. The nature of blogging is that you pretty much dump your thoughts out into a website. What I found surprising is that once you find something thought provoking in an article, you blink and then look down to the bottom of your word document and you’ve already written 500 words, and you just got started. The saying “Time flies when you’re having fun” applies to blogging I guess. Its more like “Words fly when your blogging.” Its actually nice because for the majority of my academic papers in high school I made the periods larger by about two font sizes on a 4 page paper and got a solid quarter page more. Don’t worry I don’t do that here, this is the big leagues, college actually impacts the rest of our lives.

My attitude of reading on the web has changed a lot since reading all the articles that basically rip on American society for doing it. From now on, I’m making a conscious effort to waste paper. Just kidding. But actually, I’m going to try to stop reading off my computer and pick up an article that I have to read for class. I’m going to keep reading books and the newspaper, and trust me if I ever have a kid he or she (don’t want to be sexist) will never learn to read off a Kindle. My attitudes of writing on the web haven’t really changed much because I’m typing this in a Word document with spell check only to copy and paste it over to blogger. It feels like a journal entry. It’s much better than some shit paper that I never wanted to write in the first place.