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Article: COLUMN: Daily Collegian experience shapes college years
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- December 9, 2005
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Bridget Smith
University Wire
12-09-2005
(Daily Collegian) (U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When I first thought about writing this column, I wanted it to be special.
I wanted it to be witty, smart and profound, and basically every overachieving, cliched term in the book. Ask my friends, I tried for days to make it sound like that. But I can't do it.
For four years, I've been a Daily Collegian staff member, taught to write short, concise stories and worry less about what matters to me and more about what matters to you, our readers. I've tried to teach younger staffers the same.
I've been taught to tell the truth, so to try to write something that isn't "me" wouldn't do my final column any ...