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How Blogging Can Boost Your Academic Writing

I created this blog in April 2015, when I was close to leaving my job and planning on enrolling in university as a mature student. Apart from wanting to write about my interests, my blogging intention was also to improve my writing skills and to explore topics that could be slightly less mainstream in the blogosphere and more closely related to academia.

Therefore, my blog is intrinsically connected to education, especially to my personal educational journey. But can these two spheres – blogging and education – be put together? Will creating a blog help a college student in any way?

This post is dedicated to fellow student bloggers, as well as aspiring university students. Here I will prove that, yes, blogging can indeed affect and improve your academic life.

But first, let’s take a look at some similarities and some differences between writing a blog post and writing an academic paper.

12th November 2016 by Tiziana

Education, Self-development

Life at University: 4 Misconceptions Students Need to Defeat

Now that I have gone through the first semester without any hiccups, after passing all my exams with relatively good grades, I feel the need to write about the doubts and the wrong way of thinking of some freshmen in university (including myself).

I want to highlight some misconceptions which students have that tend to push them backwards, hindering their chances of a healthy and progressive journey throughout tertiary education.

When I first enrolled in university 10 years ago, I had the same erroneous thoughts and it was this negative way of going about my studies that led me to failure. Now, as a mature student, I know better and I strive (and struggle) to remain positive and level-headed at all times. Yet, it seems that crisis is always waiting for me around the corner, and this year was no different.

I am sure that many other university students go through such a phase, particularly during the first year as they are still transitioning from high school. Despite the universality of such a situation, while writing this, I am focusing on my own experience and on the words that I have heard uttered from classmates, most of them being 18-year-olds. Therefore, keep in mind that my classmates and I are Humanities students in Malta, where university education is free.

13th April 2016 by Tiziana

Education, Self-development

Life at University: The First Two Months

This coming week marks the end of November and also the end of my second month back in university. It’s practically half of the semester done and dusted. Incredible!

I felt the need to write about my experience so far, taking stock of the positive and negative sides of my situation. In case you missed the detail I had mentioned in one of my previous Weekender’s posts, I had already enrolled in university 10 years ago, but it didn’t go well. Therefore, it is only natural for me to make comparisons between then and now.

With this post, I’d also love to reach out to other mature students or to those persons well past scholastic age who are still pondering the possibility of enrolling in a formal course to further their education. May it serve you as an encouragement.