Hey, this isn’t the last time you should see me on this page, I’ll be back next semester, hopefully as the EIC again, but I just felt I should come clean and do a corrections box on myself chronicling all of the errors we’ve done this year. All of these errors afterwards are completely my fault and mine alone.Wed. 2/20/08 Issue 2. This issue of the paper came out a day late, due to my putting the wrong email address on the email we used to send it to. This was because at 10 we were in a hurry and I read the address incorrectly. I didn’t figure this out until 9 the next day when Natalie told me it had gone wrong. It wasn’t a big deal fixing it, but it was pretty embarrassing.Wed. 4/24/08 Issue 6. A second part was announced for my students cutting class article. It was supposed to be on teachers cutting their own classes. The idea sounded very interesting to me, but it didn’t pan out because teachers usually don’t do that. Also most students have never had that happen to them. I was also going to revisit students cutting class with harder data but there wasn’t any. The school does not record when students cut class.Wed. 5/7/08 Issue 7. Issue seven came out a day late like issue two. This was yet again due to my haste because I ended up not attaching the issue to the email, hence it didn’t get to the printers in time, and therefore our staff received a failing grade on that issue.Wed. 5/7/08 Issue 7. There was also another problem with this issue. It was supposed to have a quarter page ad from Javier Urena at the EOPS office. I forgot to place the ad in the paper, but instead placed an ad from us where it was supposed to go.
These things bring shivers of embarrassment to me whenever I think of them, but there are some things that I believe I have done well this semester. Two of my favorite pieces to write were in the last issue and they are:Harold and Kumar: a runaway success story. Did the first line gross you out? I sure hope so because if it did it got your attention. I loved this movie, and I like to believe that my written review does it justice.View From Here: Stop Staring at Me. I don’t like writing my columns; I find it very difficult to come up with new things to say every week. Culture Corner is easier than this one because I basically pull a subject out of a hat, and I like researching things so it’s enjoyable. For this column finding a topic is a pain in the ass, but in the last issue what I did was go against the group opinion and fight for what I believed in. It was very fun to do, and I got a lot of satisfaction out of it. I hope it changed your mind.
This is exactly what I hoped not to write at the beginning of the year: a good-bye piece. But here I am writing it. I doubt this will turn any of you off because this is the most readers we’ve ever had looking at our stuff. We must be doing something right to have all of you picking up our paper and checking us out online, I mean dude our GTA4 article has 556 reads on it! That’s the most I think even my adviser has ever seen for a single article. We may not know what we’re going right, but maybe I’ll find out or maybe I won’t, anyways keep on reading until then, and if you need to reach me [email protected] is my email. Have fun this summer.
