<i>"... if you (aka myself) plan on having any part in tech (I'm studying CS) that you should blog ..."</i><p>Thinking about things isn't enough. Putting ideas into words lets you develop new ideas. Making something and writing about tells others about your new ideas. There is also another reason: you get to define yourself online. Nature might <i>"abhor a vacuum"</i> but google doesn't care. [0] It will associate something to a search term against your name. Better it be something you have written.<p>[0] Idomatic use of the phrase <i>"horror vacui"</i> described by aristotle ~ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_thermodynamics" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_thermodynamics</a>