When I was a freshman at Baylor University, I got a job working at the student newspaper, The Lariat, as a night news editor. It was the spring semester of 1998. It mainly involved editing stories and doing some layout. A few nights, I got to help put the paper “to bed” (send it to the printer). It was the first year they were able to send it via FTP instead of physically taking it down to the Waco newspaper office on a disc.
I also got the chance to write a few editorials as part of the job. Here are links to the three I wrote. Remember, I was only 19 then …