What is it like to be Editor-in-Chief?

Megan Klug, Blue M: It’s definitely very stressful at times but I think in the process of all this stress I’m learning how to manage my time and how to prioritize. If something is due tomorrow and my deadline isn’t for a week I’m going to finish my homework and then worry about the deadline.

Angie Moss, The Mentor: This being my last year as EIC is kind of crazy because I’m watching her and I’m remembering those moments. But at the same time there are only eight editions of the paper left, which means there are only eight editions of The Mentor that I am ever going to make ever again, which is really sad to think about because this has been my life for four years but then I’m like next year University Daily Kansan. I get to start over and work my way up that for four more years. There are bigger and better things out there.

Describe your publication’s Work Night.

M: Yearbook work nights depend. We have several work nights over the span of a deadline so sometimes it’s super laid back, we’re dancing to music and we all sit down and have a meal together, but other times we are working nonstop, we’re here until 11 o’clock. And I don’t get to bed till much past what I’d like. They’re fun because you get to know your staff more but it’s a huge time commitment.

A: Newspaper work nights are a little different just because you’re going to see your product the next day so you’re going to see all the mistakes you made the next day, and once you’re done you’re done. You don’t have proofs. There isn’t very often that we’re dancing to music and when we are it’s when we’re in a lull because we are waiting for content. So newspaper work night, in my position I layout the news page and check everyone else’s page and I submit everything so sometimes I don’t get to start on the news page until five or six at night if I’m lucky because around the time I get my plan made and get everyone else’s stuff checked the page editors are done designing their pages so I go check theirs and then I check mine. It’s interesting to balance everything because I am definitely the type of person who wants to get started and get done, and I don’t ever get to do that.

Tell me your favorite work night memory.

M: I think our favorite work night memory is together actually. Each year yearbook worknight sometimes we have dance parties and angie and I elaborately danced to the “Hoedown Throwdown” by Miley Cyrus, “Soulja Boy.”

A: We’ve taught people how to slow dance by slow dancing together I think we definitely have the same favorite work night story just because it was a huge bonding moment. Once we start to do it and have fun everyone else starts to get into it and have fun it was really fun to get people who are usually to themselves to get up and dance to Hannah Montana.