Keeping a personal website is a great asset to anyone especially students who plan to apply to colleges and eventually enter the work force.  By keeping a website you get to share your opinions and ideas with the entire world and be a source of knowledge for others. You also, demonstrate the skills needed to run and manage a website which is a extremely in demand skill in the job world in this modern tech age and you can utilize this demand by proving you have the skills of running a website. Also, if you decide to keep a blog it is a great way to keep grammar and spelling skills fresh in your mind and a blog also gives you a platform to develop your writing style without any rubrics and guidlines, allowing you to write what you feel. Blogging is a great way to express your ideas, opinions and skills to the world and can also serve as a portfolio of work you have done and can be used as part of the job interview process to show what you are capable of.  Similarly, you can also post your resume on your blog and if you are lucky you might be able to get a job offer just because a visitor found your site and love what your writing about.  Keeping any type of online presence also helps when you have your name searched on Google, (which has now become a step in many job interviews and college admissions processes). If a college or a future employer sees all good proactive things when they search your name you have a much better chance of getting admitted to your choice of colleges and you may also have to potential of earning a scholarship! Having your own website proves you have the skills to express yourself and discuss topics intelligently and I would reccommend that you get a FREE wordpress website, which is a great start for bloggers (Wordpress is also  what gdovin.net uses) you can also get a bunch of your friends to blog and have a web ring and do a link exchange so you can help each other get more page views. You could also host your own site  by buying a domain through a webhost, my favorite is 1and1 which for $3/month you get everything you need including one free domain name.