Wy do we have journals?

Now it is really hard for any sound-minded guy (yes, it can be a girl as well. This blog, of all things, is not sexist) to believe that in the year 2011, and that too for a subject like microprocessors and interfacing, you are supposed to write and submit a damn journal. While nobody can give a shred of an argument as to why writing the same experiments which you have (supposedly) executed perfectly on paper is useful even to the tiniest extent, I can give you quite a few reasons why it (with all due respect to The Rock) completely, absolutely, undoubtedly and unquestionably, sucks.

1. It wastes a hell of a lot of paper. To hell with going green, people exist on this planet who actually discard an entire journal page rather than scratch a word.

2. It wastes time like nothing else does (A lot of people call 'em practical records and still expect you to write at least a couple of pages of theory).

3. It brings about a ton of otherwise meaningless mood swings and emotional upheavals.

(Day before submissions- - Last-minute attempts at arranging a mass bunk or making everyone else skip submissions

Night before submissions- Utter frustration when you can't find someone to copy from

Late Night and early morning-More frustration accompanied by some big self-promises regarding how the 'next' set of experiments will be written well ahead of time).

I am writing this post as quest to find out why at all we do what we do, so if you are writing any comments, please try to make sense....