Confessions of JOUR1111 Student

This is a blog. My blog. And seeing as I no longer have to suffer sit through another semester of this subject, there's a few things I'd like to get off my chest.

When I first saw blogging was one of the assessment items I thought 'swish'. I was wrong. I never knew how painfully hard, and time consuming it is to blog about something you're not particularly passionate about. I wonder why there's no world famous lecture bloggers out there...

And while I appreciate that this was just an exercise to try and get us 'into' blogging, I can't help but feel like it's had the reverse effect on many of us. Blogging should never be a task. And you shouldn't feel like you have to meet a standard. It's about the expression of a passion. And any blogger will tell you, as selfish as it may sound, it's about writing and posting for yourself. If the readers come, then they do, but if they don't... eh. It's not about writing for them. And I think I lost that point here a bit.

Also, I don't think I've particularly learnt 'how to blog'. If there is such a thing to learn. Maybe I'm just over thinking it... I tend to do that a lot. I wish I could vomit out more of my thoughts onto this blog post (nice imagery), but unfortunately there's another thing I tend to do, and that's leave things right until the last minute. I need to send off this link really soon.

So guess its bye bye JOUR1111. You've been eye opening. I have learnt from you. But don't expect me to be posting back here anytime soon. I'm off to try my hand at another blog. Something a bit more me. Cheers guys.