<p>For applications that have an arts supplement or space to include other interests and pursuits, is it a good idea to include a blog you've created? Or are blogs too common an aspect of life in 2012 to set you at all apart from the crowd?</p>
<p>My blog is solely about books, reading and writing and I try my best to write it well. </p>
<p>Good or bad idea? I don't want to look like another internet-obsessed teenager but I do think my blog could almost become professional if I dedicated enough time to it. </p>
<p>You could probably include it if you wanted to, but I wouldn’t. Some of your posts are really impassioned – I’m not sure how they would read into that. And your better posts are too long for any admissions officer to read through during the amount of time they allot per application. Then there’s the likely fact that most teenagers maintain a blog these days (I know I do!). </p>
<p>I think writing a beautiful essay will be more than enough to showcase your powerful writing abilities.</p>
<p>Oh thank you for your advice! And thank you for actually taking the time to look at my blog and take its content and style into consideration when giving advice - much appreciated. I think you’re right, blogs have become a very common aspect of adolescence nowadays and probably wouldn’t set me apart in the admissions process.</p>
<p>^^I don’t know, I sent mine in. But then it had my prize winning essay and a project article and some of my photographs (I sent an Arts Supp for painting and photography).
I think if you think your writing makes you stand out from the crowd, you should send it in. Not, of course, if your posts are on your daily routine/usual blogging topics/etc.
Though that probably goes without saying
Anyway, all the best, and I hope my post made sense :)</p>
