The Introduction

Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog. My name is Nick Bologna, and I'm a photography major at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Moving to the city was a huge change, considering I come from the suburbs of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. So far I love the city.

I am enrolled in a course called Literature and Writing I my first semester of college, which is why I am writing this blog in the first place. I have never written a blog before, probably because this isn't the type of writing I'm used to doing. Most of the time I am writing for a school assignment, or for some paper I need to turn in for a grade. A deadline is definitely my inspiration most of the time.

I sometimes write poetry. I think I like poetry more because of the very nature of poetic language. I love the witty, creative, and descriptive way that a poem can be worded. The fact that the rules of grammar don't have as much of a hold on the way a poet writes is intriguing to me too. The same applies for my time to write, on Facebook, but whether that counts as legitimate writing is up for discussion.

Reading is an entirely different sack of bananas as far as my interest goes. I love to read, but I have this...thing. I don't know why but I will get so in to a book I'm reading, and often times never finish the book for one reason or another. This is probably why I don't really read for entertainment. The only time you see a printed publication in my hand, it's probably a magazine (e.g. Vogue, Nylon, Harper's Bazaar, Elle). Since I'm a photography major, its absolutely acceptable for me to say "I just look at the pictures."

Besides, I've never liked the idea of reading a book by some person you don't even know. What gives them the right to shove their words down your throat for an average of three to four hundred pages? If I'm talking to someone on the street, I don't sit there and let them run their mouth forever as if they were reciting their memoirs. Why should I allow someone I don't even know (or care about, really) to do the same?

Don't get me wrong, language is a beautiful thing, and reading is absolutely necessary and unavoidable. I mean it's kind of unrealistic to try to abandon it all together. How fascinating, funny little scribbles on a page, or computer screen can actually make us feel emotion, imagine a scene, or take us to another world that we didn't know existed inside of our minds. Even reading solely for informational value (which is what I really enjoy) you walk away having gained something.

I really hope this course is going to go well, and who knows, I may finish a book one of these days.

Bye!

-Nick Bologna