About

Hello everyone, my name is Nick Poppe, and I am a freshman here at Hofstra University with a major in health science. This is my second blog that I have created so far, the first one I created was for my media design class. I am completely new to blogging as I have not had any type of social media throughout my life, so it feels weird knowing that people are going to be viewing what I post and write. I guess I am just going to have to get used to it.

Throughout my life I have never really considered myself as a writer, but maybe that will change as I go through college.  As I kid, just like everyone else, I would always like to make up stories or certain scenarios in my head, but I would try to draw them instead of writing them down. Maybe that counts as writing, after all I’m stilling putting emotions and thought into what I draw, just like how I do with writing.

When I do write, I have to be in a certain mood, I just can’t jump into something otherwise everything I write won’t feel genuine enough. When I write for an assignment, I like to write something that I can voice my opinion on or is a free write, and this is because I don’t have to think as hard. An example would be to describe what a quote or picture may mean. It just feels more natural knowing that I am writing whatever enters my mind.  When I have to write a report or paper on an actual topic, then that’s when I don’t enjoy writing too much because I have to gather information and facts to write something. It feels like I am being forced to write. The only exception that I have when it comes writing on a topic or assignment is when I have to write from another person’s point of view, such as a character in a book. Especially if it’s a good book that I read, I can thoroughly enjoy pretending to be another person, as I try to mimic my state of mind into how that character in a book thinks, says, and reacts to certain situations.

Lastly, sometimes writing can drive me insane. The worst is when I am in the middle of a sentence and I was just thinking of what to say next and I lose my train of thought. This happens way too often, I then have to re-read things over and over again to try and get back on track. Another thing is that sometimes when I start off writing something, I have an explosion of ideas and I don’t know where to start, it’s like my thoughts are moving at a thousand miles an hour, and it takes time to finally think of how I would like to start off my writing.

Anyway, I am interested to see how my writing skills may improve while I am at Hofstra. Even further, I hope I can get used to how blogging works. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get into blogging and I’ll create a couple more social media accounts in the future.