Student Blogging

Well as you may or mat not know, this is a school blog for AP Lang/Comp. We have to blog every week with a specific word count and number of blogs. Sometimes I hear people complain about the blog, but for the most part I like doing it a lot. I don't have a computer at home so sometimes it's difficult to meet the necessary requirements, but it gives me a good reason to come to school a little earlier, and let's me give my opinion on the topics that interest me most. Mostly stuff about music. Bands, Cd's, instruments, games, etc.


Lately, I've been coming in to school early every morning in order to work on and/or try to stay ahead on the blog. Most of the time I think I'm meeting the word count, but if not I know I'm at least meeting the number of blogs needed for that week. This started out as a blog completely dedicated to Metallica. but after a while you start to realize that one band isn't nearly enough to blog about all the time. So I expanded it to every rock/metal band. Regardless if I liked them or not. And eventually I just said I'll blog about anything music related.

But all in all I think blogging is a great thing for students to do. Most kids are on the computer more than writing in a notebook anyway and some were probably blogging before it was part of our grade, so why not? I think people have a lot of opinions and a lot to say about a wide variety of topics. Politics, music, games, books, cats, dogs, life, death...anything. So it's not like it's all that hard to find somethings to blog about. Just pick something and move on.

The only thing I don't like about blogging for school is, there's a limit for what you can say or talk about without getting offending people. I'm not saying I want to insult anyone for any reason, but sometimes, and I know it's true for everyone, I want to really let out what I have to say and use the vocabulary I choose. But I can't do that due to censorship and the possiblility of people being offended. But I guess with my topic being music I can't really get too many people mad enough to where it would be a big deal. But some people's blogs are all about expressing their opinion on things that can get really ridiculed. Subjects like politics and religion can get really heated really fast. That's why I chose to do something that no one should get to upset with. But other than that, I like to blog. It's an easier way to help your grade in AP Lang/Comp. while being somewhat entertained.