1. You have a near-death experience, but you’re preoccupied with the headlines for it.
2. You have oddball conversations with close friends about your love for semi-colons.
3. You break dance “inverted pyramid” style.
4. You utilize clever headlines in everyday conversations.
5. Your most frightening nightmares are about missing deadlines.
6. Everything happening around you becomes a possible Pulitzer award-winning photo.
7. Your teachers label you “the newspaper kid.”
8. You think you’ve earned bragging rights around school for finding the best quotes.
9. When your friends quote movies, you’re the only one who does so accurately.
10. The only questions you ask are open-ended.
11. You hate Fox News.
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April 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Ha, good ones. Especially the last one, very true. I’m not really afraid of deadlines, though, seeing as everyone on our paper pretty much completely ignores them. They all get most everything done within a week of printing…Oh well, we still get tons of awards, so I guess it works.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Amanda,
You remind me so much of myself in high school, from your running commentary to your quirky musical parodies, and especially being an editor (though I was the A&E editor - too busy with sports to be Editor in Chief) one of the best high school newspapers in Florida! If you’re reading this, just keep holding your head up high. You’re more mature than the people who aren’t inviting you to parties and who are swept up in the social scene that is high school. I hope you get into your choice college - you’ll find people there who will get you. Sure, you will find plenty of people who act as though they are still in high school, but you have more of a choice in who you live with and how you socialize.
As someone who is now hunting down her first journalism job, I can confidently tell you that all those skills you are learning in newspaper will shape you and stay with you forever. You will probably never have difficulties with time management, and will laugh when your friends freak out over finals since you learned how to manage people and produce a quality paper.
This is quickly falling into the “rambling” category, so I will end it here. Good luck! We’ll be seeing your byline in a few years!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:41 am
12. Your work your best when you procrastinate. And then become a workaholic when you realize how much work you put off.
Hahaha. The wonders of the journalistic community.
P.S. - I heart semicolons. Although my personal copy editor discourages use of them. =(
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 am
Amanda! You are basically my inspiration to be in journalism.. so i signed up and im on the team for next year!
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
NUMBER 12 — IS ONLY IF YOUR A LIBERAL
GO FOX NEWS
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
13. When you interview people without even thinking about it.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
When is that wuss Alex going to write his blog about episode three? I like to hear his explantaion about why he went off on you and friends.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Aaaah! I love this! I am currently stressing out over a bunch of work I need to for school tomorrow!
I cannot miss an episode of the paper.
I am currently the Entertainment Editor in our school’s magazine but hopefully nexy trimester i’ll be editor in chief!!
God I love this chick!
Go Amanda!
May 4th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I love this show. I’m Editor-in-Chief of the paper at my high school and everything you go through in the show just reminds me of what I’m going through. It is amazing that school papers are finally being recognized more positively.
And number 10 makes me laugh… so true!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Didn’t know where else to post this, so here it is. I like the show and the whole idea about bringing light to the high school newspaper which is often overlooked.
But there is a factual error in Adam’s statement about “no high school has ever done a 36 page paper.” In 2005, Omaha Central High School’s The Register won best-in-show at the JEA convention with a 40 page paper. In 2006, The Register put out a 52 that won first place (best-in-show) at the JEA competition in San Fran.
In 2007, the same school put out an 80 page speciality issue, with a 16 page section completely devoted to student health.
I was a part of these staffs, and just thought i’d point that out. But def. props for 32, because i truly know how hard journalism can be.
Thanks for the time.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
This is an awesome - and very true - list.
I love my semicolons. There is apparently a movement in France to eliminate the semicolon from usage. I would have a heart attack, so it’s a good thing I don’t live in France.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I love this list, some of them don’t apply to me but still their great all the same. I am not a newspaper person but I am on yearbook staff and we have a yearbook camp we go to over the summer and I can’t wait!!! The show rocks, keep making that paper.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Haha, excellent list.
Amanda I think you are kind of crazy but that’s what you need to be a good Editor-in-Chief sometimes (as I have also recently had to learn)
Also don’t let other people get you down because you obviously got EIC coz you deserved it!
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