5-8-09: My last post -- time to get sentimental
By: Andrew Bruner
Issue date: 5/5/09 Section: Editor's blog
This will be my last post to the editor's blog, but fear not - next semester's editor in chief, Matt Welch, has said he wants to continue the experiment.
Matt may have different plans for the blog than what I've done this semester, and I don't know if he plans on doing anything in the summer or if the blog will take a break until fall. Whatever happens, I'm happy that the concept isn't going away.
What to discuss in my last post? It's really a no-brainer. I want to get sentimental about the four years I've spent working with The DePauw. You've been warned.
I've said in columns and blog posts before that I think one of the most important goals of The DePauw is to train students how to be journalists. I base that notion on my own experience. When I came to DePauw as a freshman, I was really interested in writing news, but had zero experience. Things like a student newspaper tend to be luxuries that a high school of 200 people can't afford.
As I leave DePauw to begin working at the Sullivan Daily Times, in Sullivan, Ind. (I've gotten a job since a few posts ago), I have this University and The DePauw specifically to thank for giving me a future career that is also my passion. I've written about 300 stories in the past four years by my most recent estimate, and I was able to use my work at The DePauw to get three newspaper internships during college. I started dating the woman who is now my fiancée through the most recent of those internships, so I guess I have The DePauw to thank for my future marriage. I'll never complain about The DePauw's lousy pay again.
The first story I wrote for this newspaper was about DePauw's participation in Hurricane Katrina relief. Being inexperienced, I was such a poor news writer that the editors had to rewrite what I turned in. That went on for a couple months before I figured that if I wanted to get better, I should start taking note of what the editors changed and writing my stories in that style. What an epiphany.
Matt may have different plans for the blog than what I've done this semester, and I don't know if he plans on doing anything in the summer or if the blog will take a break until fall. Whatever happens, I'm happy that the concept isn't going away.
What to discuss in my last post? It's really a no-brainer. I want to get sentimental about the four years I've spent working with The DePauw. You've been warned.
I've said in columns and blog posts before that I think one of the most important goals of The DePauw is to train students how to be journalists. I base that notion on my own experience. When I came to DePauw as a freshman, I was really interested in writing news, but had zero experience. Things like a student newspaper tend to be luxuries that a high school of 200 people can't afford.
As I leave DePauw to begin working at the Sullivan Daily Times, in Sullivan, Ind. (I've gotten a job since a few posts ago), I have this University and The DePauw specifically to thank for giving me a future career that is also my passion. I've written about 300 stories in the past four years by my most recent estimate, and I was able to use my work at The DePauw to get three newspaper internships during college. I started dating the woman who is now my fiancée through the most recent of those internships, so I guess I have The DePauw to thank for my future marriage. I'll never complain about The DePauw's lousy pay again.
The first story I wrote for this newspaper was about DePauw's participation in Hurricane Katrina relief. Being inexperienced, I was such a poor news writer that the editors had to rewrite what I turned in. That went on for a couple months before I figured that if I wanted to get better, I should start taking note of what the editors changed and writing my stories in that style. What an epiphany.
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