Woohoo!

The semester is winding down, and while I don’t want to sound ungrateful for the education I receive here …
ONE WEEK TO GO!!!! Wooohoooo!
I am so ready for the summer and the chance to relax and not have to worry about class work. I was fortunate enough to get a newsroom internship at a paper near my hometown in New Jersey. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to learn a lot from that experience and be able to bring it back in whatever capacity when I return to The Daily Gamecock.
The staff is going to be very different next year, with many of the people who have been here the longest finally graduating and many others going on to other things. However, I have the greatest confidence that the staff will do a great job and continue to make our university look good.
I hope that we continue to piss people off with the things we write, because honestly sometimes the best stories we print are the ones that get people mad. It feels like we’re doing out best work when someone is pissed at us, which happens pretty frequently so I guess we do all right. But it’s only good when people aren’t mad, because we screwed something up. I was thinking about my most embarrassing moment of my college career last night and I realized it was when I mad a dumb mistake in a story my freshman year. But I guess it was sort of a good thing, because I learned to double-check even the most minute things.
Things that happened last semester seem like years ago, and I hope that my college career slows down enough for me to enjoy it.

-- Gina Vasselli
Asst. Metro Editor