bloggen, bloggte, gebloggt

OK, so I don't actually know if that's the conjugation, but my distaste for mildly-germanified English and for blogs themselves don't leave me likely to give the German language the benefit of the doubt. "Distaste for blogs?" you say. "But here I am, reading one that you wrote." And indeed you are. I've decided, for a variety of reasons,* to give up on the notion that blogs are somehow a sign of arrogance. Before graduation, I was publishing my opinion in the Baker Orange on a regular basis. If that's not arrogant, writing this blog probably isn't either.

* efficiency. I can update you all at once!
* modesty. If you don't want to read, you don't have to!
* self-fulfillment. I get to write!
* arrogance. And show it to you!
* laziness. And not make it perfect before I do!

With that, I welcome you to Vol. 1 of "JMG in HGW." From the Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, this is Justine Marie Greve. Auf Wiedersehen and goodnight.*

*Or minus 7 hours. So "day."