Discuss “Fortune cookies and newsprint: three years on The Tartan’s staff ”

As I contemplate my college experience up to this point, my eyes fall on the fortune I received from a cookie months ago, which is now tucked into the frame of my computer monitor.

“Do it because you love it.”

I joined The Tartan in my first week as a lowly first-year. I had written a couple articles for my high school paper, and when I showed up at my first news staff meeting here at The Tartan, I was terrified of the huge organization filled with students much older and more experienced than I was.

I ended up writing what seemed to me, at the time, to be a throwaway article about computer viruses spreading through the Andrew system. It wasn’t too hard — I interviewed a couple people and banged out something like 600 words. However,...