You want to be able to slide in your political viewpoints and see your little picture in the paper twice a week. My tenure as opinion editor of The Reflector has been the hardest position I have ever held. The criticism is harsh, the praise is little and the hours are long.
Few people realize how many hours go into the completion of every issue of The Reflector.
Magic newspaper elves do not come in and put our pages together for us. We do not send our columns and stories off to a printing house and have them assemble our pages. We do it all ourselves. Some issues are larger than others and on the larger papers, like the first issue of the year, the Homecoming issue or the forthcoming Super Bulldog Weekend issue, the various section editors of the paper will be in the media center until 3 or 4 a.m. and then go to class at 8 a.m. It is stressful to have to meet rigid deadlines, balance classes and extracurricular activities and then try to squeeze in a social life.