For a while, I wondered why I even blogged, even though I don’t do it on a regular basis. But last night, as I was writing a 10-page paper for one of my classes, I realized that I had blogged about a few things that were relevant to my paper. So, since it was my work, it was original, and fairly well-written, all I had to do was a little bit of copy-paste from my blog to my paper and–boom–I had an extra three to four pages. So, the lesson learned: make blog posts of a high enough quality that you can use them to make contributions to papers for class.