Blogivation

The simplest answer to that question is: I don’t want to be forgotten. Sounds desperate, right? It’s a strange complex I’ve developed over the years.

Blogging is one of the purest forms of self-expression and personality, whether you write about lifehacking for college students or personal stuff. Developing the ability to shape an idea into 400 words on a regular basis is an extremely valuable skill to have. It might not get (all of) the ladies, but it’s trumped the portfolio in terms of show-off capacity. Reading a blog can tell you so much about a person: their sense of humor, their ambitiousness, their smarts. It speaks much more than a resume or a handshake ever could.

Some of the people I love to hang out with the most are bloggers (or at least regular content creators) themselves. Those with the blogging mentality are just much more wholesome people. I suppose I am a little biased, though.

Just as other guest posters here have mentioned, I think of myself pre-blogging and post-blogging. I’m not sure exactly what I did before September, 2006. Now I have an ever-evolving piece of work that represents me. When my great-grandkids are looking through ancient cached pages of the Internet, my name will pop up a lot on this strange site named “HackCollege.”

Of course, a college education will be obsolete by then so they might have to ask their parents, my grandkids. And then they will realize how awesome blogging was, way back in the day.

-Kelly Sutton.