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.