It's been 4 months since I published the "How do I find personal blogs online" and since then I've been away from writing because of the university and my changed habits. Let's talk about that.
When I published my last post, I was a completely different person in terms of my habits.
For those don't know, I'm currently majoring Electrics and Electronics Engineering and this year I became 3rd class student.
My classes started in September 2025, and for the first 2 weeks, everything went great, but then it became worse.
This year of engineering was different. Why am I telling this? because every class we take this year takes everything we learned from theory to practice, and this hardens the classes a lot. Because we literally had to relearn everything they taught us.
Before this year, we were able to study just 1 week before the midterms and 2 weeks before the finals and score a solid B+ in most of our classes. But this year that was impossible. I had to study trough the entire season for both finals and midterms but because of the difficulty of classes and professors who love making things harder, I've failed the half of the classes I took.
This was the worst year of my academic life and it was very upsetting to experience such a failure in my classes. That reduced my motivation to almost zero.
Thankfully, our university offers make-up exams to give students another chance. But I didn't had enough time to study all those exams and at that time my head was so cluttered that I wasn't even able to think strait.
So just like any other guy would do, I stepped in my car and went on a short road trip to the nearest city just to clear my mind, with no music and no purpose. Just the road, sky and myself.
And it worked, that evening I began to study the courses that were recoverable and thankfully passed 3 of them!
The Social Media addiction
At the beginning of this post, I said my habits were changed, and that changed habit is actually my addiction to social media.
Before that season, I used to follow blogs via RSS and follow news around the world from news sites and sometimes Twitter. And for a very long time, I only used Instagram to see what my relatives were doing and nothing else.
I never had the Instagram app before on my phone.
But things changed when I had to get in touch with a person for a job. The only contact I had with that person was Instagram and to not miss any message, I had to download the Instagram app. And that is where my addiction got started.
I don't exactly remember how my addiction came to that point but I know exactly one thing. That app is designed like a black hole that sucks up all your time and energy.
That addiction has replaced my reading and writing habits with scrolling and when things at university went downhill, I didn't even had energy to destroy that addiction and bring my old habits back. Until the make-up exams.
After the finals when I got that road trip I decided to delete everything from my phone and just focus on those make-up exams. And when I got home, I only left 2 apps on my phone and deleted every other one.
And it helped me a lot to get over that addiction. And now I'm here once again to recover my old habits.
The new me
So yeah, as you read above, I was just away from my blog to study for exams, fight my social media addiction and getting things back to their desired way.
We all evolve over time and I’m no exception. This past season with all its highs and lows has truly reshaped my perspective in a good way.
I believe that a much better and more refined version of myself is about to emerge from its ashes. But I still need to do lots of things for this to happen.
Thanks for reading, as always see you all in the next one!
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08.02.2026