A Blog for the Sake of my Grade

Well, not to say that what we talked about in AIS this week was not stimulating, but I could not seem to scrounge up an interesting idea to blog about.  This is a first for me.  All of my blogs thus far may not be masterpieces, and they might not come off as very insightful.  Nonetheless, every week I try to post on a relevant issue that I can relate to.  What I am going to present in my blog this week is a stretch, but is an issue that may be relevant to some of you, and it definitely is to me.

This blog, to be honest, has no correlation to the AIS topics of the previous week.  I am aware that one of the guidelines for the weekly blogs is that they have to relate to classtime discussions.  The problem is that not every discussion will have meaning to every listener or participant.  So what if none of the topics broached in class spark a thought in your mind?  Should you be forced to write a blog?  Personally, I feel that a blog like this, one that clearly is "breaking the rules", is better than having no blog at all.  It is better to at least make an attempt than to not try at all.  Also, like any typical New Trier student, I have ambition.  I have unfortunately been taught that grades are more important than anything else.  So maybe a blog like this may have no meaning, but I have to blog, or else my grade will suffer.  The same for blogging goes hand in hand with participation in the classroom.  If grades didn't matter, I would only participate if I had something meaningful to say.  But since participation plays such a big role in my grade, i feel the need to participate at least once a day.  I know that I have kind of been restating the same thing over and over again, so to sum it all up, do you think that it is better to only speak when you have something meaningful to present, or should your grade come before all else?