Or maybe it should be a soap opera. The real thing contains some elements of each. Maybe I should write it. I've advised The Maroon for four years. And, long long ago in the age of manual typewriters, I was a part of The Maroon for four years.
Few people are lucky enough to have such an intense experience twice in a lifetime.
It's as if my life went into reruns. Much has changed, of course, but much has not. But otherwise, they're like we were. Print journalists tend to be cut of the same rumpled cloth, one generation after another. College journalism is their baptism of fire.