WHY IS KEEPING A JOURNAL A GOOD THING FOR STUDENTS? WHY IS IT GOOD FOR ANYONE?

I’ve written since I could hold a pen in my hands. Keeping journals is something I’ve been doing on and off since I knew what a journal is. But I have found that, as a university student, these journals are more important to me than they ever were. These are the reasons that make writing a journal a good and even necessary things for students:

1. You’re growing: university years can be really intense. There are lots of things happening that are shaping your personality, you’re learning, meeting new people, having new experiences. You may suffer an existencial crisis or two in the time span of a single university year. Do I know what I want? Do I know what I don’t want? What do I think of this? What do I think of that? I think that through college and university years, you start to become really aware of everything that surrounds you. You have just stepped out of those teenage years in which everything was a whirlwind and now you have more time and experience to reflect upon yourself and the world. Writing all your thoughts in a journal can be a great way of becoming aware of all this growing process, and getting to know yourself better. 

To be continued...