Natalie Yemenidjian
I chop it up line by line.
The high is unsurpassable.
It’s production day in the Roundup newsroom at Pierce College and we’re into our twelfth hour.
The rush of seeing our final product on newsstands keeps us going more than the 16.ozs of sugar we’ve downed with a side of coffee.
My time at the Roundup began a year ago, but my addiction really began Fall semester of 2007. I became feature editor and subsequently editor in chief the semester after.
It amazed me how a newspaper could be tailored to the life of the average Pierce student, including mine.
Now, after a year of the Roundup watching me progress as a writer, page designer and editor, I have decided to let it come with me.
At Pierce, we learn the tools of our trades, the latest in software and technology, but I have come to realize we are the innovators of our industries.
In your political science classes you’ll hear the professor say that journalism is the only career mentioned in the constitution. It feels wonderful to be a part of it. To be included in a profession that embodies first amendment rights and exercises it daily.
The Roundup may be more than 60 years old, but it doesn’t have to look it.
While going to the library to check out a 40-year-old issue of the paper, I realized what a privilege it is to be the papers editor in chief.
Even more spectacular, is to know that I will make an impression on its history.
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