The Purpose of This Blog
This blog is just a place for me to put down my thoughts on various subjects into writing and for people to come and read it if they wish. All you BYU students out there are probably now wondering why I don’t just send in a letter to the Daily Universe instead or perhaps try to just publish a flyer using my own resources and spread it all around campus.
The reasons for the latter are obvious: 1) I’m just a lowly student who MIGHT be able to afford purchasing all of that ink and paper, however this is much more reasonably priced: FREE. 2) This is MUCH easier for people to access it and spread it around to their friends – if they want to show it to their friends they can just email the link to them. I’m not saying that everything I write in here will be devastatingly brilliant and everybody in the world will be just begging to read it, but I have been told in the past that what I write can be fun to read so people might want to read it.
As far as publishing this in letters to the Daily Universe –that is far from effective. You write a letter to the Daily Universe and you never know if it will be published, and if it IS published, sometimes it’s published months away from the date that you send it in. And whether or not it's published often depends on whether or not the editor just happened to be having a bad day because they ran out of that one type of donut that he loves so much and he (or she) did not get to eat it this morning. Also this gives me space for people to return comments on my letters and kind of open up forums for discussion - which I'm sure some people will love to comment on.
The Daily Universe (http://newsnet.byu.edu)is a good forum for bringing some information to the students, but let’s face it: any information that is considered damaging to the University, even though it might be true, is usually NOT included in there. Take for example the article on the new Bookstore buyback policy entitled, “Bookstore Cracks Down”. Not even ONCE did they mention the exorbitant price gouging that has always occurred at the Bookstore. Instead they made it seem that the Bookstore is doing this COMPLETELY for our Benefit. Well – you can read below the opinions that I have about that.
Why would I want to write a blog at all in the first place? Part of the reason is that I’m hoping to do for college students what Dilbert did for the office place – show the absurdity of life in the college world. And yes, many of you are thinking: why not just draw a comic strip? Well – I would do that, but frankly I just suck at drawing.
Some things I’ll rant about won’t have anything to do with BYU but just about random things dealing with life in general – I’m trying to keep my options open for topics I can write about. Sometimes they’ll just be funny stories I think you’ll enjoy. Often I’ll make up situations to show how silly other situations are, like most of the below bookstore article, or another article I’ll post on here soon concerning using restrooms in the Humanities Testing Center. Here’s hoping you guys can sit back and relax and enjoy the show.
The reasons for the latter are obvious: 1) I’m just a lowly student who MIGHT be able to afford purchasing all of that ink and paper, however this is much more reasonably priced: FREE. 2) This is MUCH easier for people to access it and spread it around to their friends – if they want to show it to their friends they can just email the link to them. I’m not saying that everything I write in here will be devastatingly brilliant and everybody in the world will be just begging to read it, but I have been told in the past that what I write can be fun to read so people might want to read it.
As far as publishing this in letters to the Daily Universe –that is far from effective. You write a letter to the Daily Universe and you never know if it will be published, and if it IS published, sometimes it’s published months away from the date that you send it in. And whether or not it's published often depends on whether or not the editor just happened to be having a bad day because they ran out of that one type of donut that he loves so much and he (or she) did not get to eat it this morning. Also this gives me space for people to return comments on my letters and kind of open up forums for discussion - which I'm sure some people will love to comment on.
The Daily Universe (http://newsnet.byu.edu)is a good forum for bringing some information to the students, but let’s face it: any information that is considered damaging to the University, even though it might be true, is usually NOT included in there. Take for example the article on the new Bookstore buyback policy entitled, “Bookstore Cracks Down”. Not even ONCE did they mention the exorbitant price gouging that has always occurred at the Bookstore. Instead they made it seem that the Bookstore is doing this COMPLETELY for our Benefit. Well – you can read below the opinions that I have about that.
Why would I want to write a blog at all in the first place? Part of the reason is that I’m hoping to do for college students what Dilbert did for the office place – show the absurdity of life in the college world. And yes, many of you are thinking: why not just draw a comic strip? Well – I would do that, but frankly I just suck at drawing.
Some things I’ll rant about won’t have anything to do with BYU but just about random things dealing with life in general – I’m trying to keep my options open for topics I can write about. Sometimes they’ll just be funny stories I think you’ll enjoy. Often I’ll make up situations to show how silly other situations are, like most of the below bookstore article, or another article I’ll post on here soon concerning using restrooms in the Humanities Testing Center. Here’s hoping you guys can sit back and relax and enjoy the show.
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