Working on the campus newspaper is fun, frustrating, hard work, and rewarding. It can be the biggest headache, but there's nothing like seeing your work published all around the school and seeing people reading the newspaper you worked so hard on. Week after week, we accomplish what seems like the impossible.
Fellow writers and editors, this one's for you:
1. Leaving the office at 2:30 a.m. and feeling a piece of your soul leave your body.
2. There's nothing like seeing the paper published after some sweat and a few tears (literally).
3. Laying out two week's worth of news in two nights.
4. Using a version of InDesign that may be older than you are.
5. When you see people actually read what you write and like it.
6. Working in a musty office surrounded by newspapers in the depths of a building on campus.
7. Getting 20 emails from your paper advisor about covering a big event or campus crisis before other news outlets get to it.
8. Running out of paper and/or ink during a layout night.
9. When your head hurts and your eyes water from just looking at how the alumni had to layout the newspaper (circa 1994).
