Blogging in itself.

I am taking blogging to a whole new level.

The reason I originally started blogging is because it was sort of forced by an English course which I am taking. Before creating "The Scoop," I have never written a blog or was a part of a web-conversation. Honestly, I am neutral when it comes the stating my opinion and didn't even really care about blogs. When I was first assigned to create this blog, I was so lost and did not even know where to begin. I did not know how to set it up, was frankly too lazy to be typing all day and I did not even know what to write about! Many students found blogging to be better than writing papers for a class, yet, frankly speaking, I viewed blogging as mostly a burden. Why would people care about what I - out of all people - have to say. I simply hated the assignment. We had to continuously be blogging about whatever comes to mind and we did not need to have a certain pattern in our blog posts.

Because of my lack of enthusiasm, I - of course - lagged on writing on my blog and wouldn't really write that much (when I did end up blogging). I would blog here and there because I had to, NOT because I wanted to. But, I soon realized that not constantly updating my blog would bite me in the behind when it came towards the end of the semester.

As the semester came close to the end, I realized that my blog lacks some umph and did not have many posts. So, I started to fill the empty space with things that would actually relate to my life to make the assignment a little more interesting. As I started to get in the real mode of blogging, I soon learned that this assignment is not really that bad. I started to view blogging as more as an activity to get your thoughts out, rather than an assignment. I am a little bothered by the fact that I did not realize the true essence of blogging earlier in the term, but I learned a lot more from this experience.

One learns that in life comes challenges that they must face with open arms, because if you don't, the challenge will get a lot harder. As the great saying goes, you live and you learn. I did not enjoy blogging at all at the beginning of my forced assignment, but I realized it is a fun way to express my viewpoints and no one can say whether you are right or wrong. Next time I am faced with a challenge that I do not necessarily favor, I am going to try my very best to fight it back with all my might.