Among the many great things about the famous, now owned by Yahoo!, blogging website Tumblr. For instance, there are study blogs, or, "studyblr".
Study blogs are Tumblr accounts that are dedicated to academics. Usually an account starts by making a “welcome post” in which they give a brief summary of themselves and their academics, such as what they are majoring in (if in college) and fun facts about themselves. Since becoming popular, study blogs have helped students all across the learn better themselves academically while giving them a new way to learn languages.
Even after being a user of Tumblr for years, I only discovered the study blog community about a year ago. It showed me how to make myself a better student little by little. There was something about another student out there being a witness to the fact that having a study blog has worked for them. I got curious and eventually I realized I could spend up to a few hours scrolling through various study blogs and the information they offered me.
I wouldn’t say I was a necessarily “bad” student my first semester of college, I was more or so “okay” because I wasn’t doing as well as I personally knew I could do. With study blogs, I found a community that was accepting of the fact that I wasn’t perfect, and like everyone else, I could improve my study habits in one way or another. I find it amazing how people who have a perfect 4.0, still has room for improvement in their academic life.
Since following, and creating my own study blog, my grades have improvement tremendously. I don’t just want to write notes, I have formed the habit of writing them in class and rewriting them to make them appealing to me outside of class. My professors that I had last year have even stopped and commented on how different I am treating my academics and how it shows in how I go about completing my work and turning it in.
Study blogs have made Tumblr even more appealing than it was before. It has made room for those who enjoy taking pride in how they go about executing their school work and completing projects. They have a place to learn from people who feel as passionately about they do about their academics. Seniors, thinking about college can get a true sense of what college is actually like, and not from a parent or teacher who attended college in a different time.
People who take time in creating studyblrs make the idea of studying more appealing. They make you learn while also encouraging yourself to take a little more time to make it fun. Most importantly, study blogs teach students to be more organized, but not only when it comes to academics but in other aspects of their life as well, such as balancing between work and extracurricular activities.
