Can Blogging Harm Your Graduate School Career?
Media stories about blog-related losses have focused on the corporate world, but blogging holds implications for higher education as well. Graduate school applicants should be aware that revealing their blogs, or writing under their own name, may cost them admission to graduate school if admission committees hold unfavorable views towards blogs or read something that suggests that the applicant is not a good fit for the program. Current graduate students who blog under their own names carry the risk of alienating other students and faculty if they air negative – or sometimes even accurate – views about the program or their work. It goes without saying that a responsible (and smart) blogger never blogs about a student or faculty member by name and attempts to protect the person’s anonymity.
Is blogging helpful or harmful?
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Surviving Graduate School
Comments
I have not had designed a blog. If there is a blog out there concerning me it was designed without my permission.
I don’t think having a blog should affect applications to grad school. I mean we talk about freedom of speech and more. However, I advice that owners of the blogs can choose not to mention names of persons referred to in the blog post. I do that in my blog because I believe in privacy laws.
I agree with you, Tara, and tairebabs, that people DO need to be careful with what they put out there on the internet. Just today I was watching TV and a show was talking about being careful about putting photos on the net using a phone.
If you just think of the internet as PUBLIC, then you will be OK if you put things on there that you don’t mind other people reading. And yes, be careful. I totally agree.