To The Daily Tar Heel: thanks for letting me be a part of your wonderful operation for one brief semester.
In all honesty, I used to make fun of the DTH on a daily basis. I would joke that it was a “communist newsletter” and “a bunch of kids trying to stir up high school drama.”
Boy, was I wrong.
I joined the Editorial Board back in January, with an application that was thrown together over winter break. Thankfully, Rajee and Paige decided to welcome me with open arms.
From my first editorial board meeting to my last read, I was floored by the care, kindness and joy that each member of the DTH has for journalism and writing. My offhand, derogatory comments were quickly replaced with a quiet respect for the overworked and awesome management staff.
Nowhere else do you get to wax poetic about any topic that you want to (within reason), and have people be excited about it. Being able to take my years of policy and economics classes and apply them to articles was something I only imagined getting to do way down the road.
From the team’s acceptance of me writing about obscure economic topics (shipping bottlenecks and the sort) to their support of my random graphs on Twitter, I don’t think I’ve ever met a team of college students who want to support and hear each other's ideas so much.
To end this hodgepodge of a farewell column, here are some quotes I love that keep me going in the right direction every day:
“You know how I made good Marines? Training the shit out of them.”
