2008 Woodie Awards
Priorities went out the window
Anna Sedney
Issue date: 4/30/03 Section: Commentary
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Chris: your rise in responsibility at this paper has been quick, but you have lived up to every expectation and done better than anyone could have guessed. Thank you so much for the work you do and the friend that you are. Lindsay: epitomizing coming through in the clutch, you filled an unexpected vacancy and did great things there. You are continually one of the best writers and editors we could want, and I and everyone else at this paper owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Brendan, Josh, Katie, Max: you all are the future of this paper, which sounds so cheesy, but I mean it. It has been strange this semester, with so many of my classmates gone, but you all have become such a vitally important part of The Independent, and wonderful friends.
Mary, Mike, Will and everyone who has made the fourth floor a home: we helped each other get through this year (helped and hindered, really) and inter-paper rivalries have never been so fun. Dave: you are my favorite token liberal, you know that? I missed having you here this semester to tell it like it is, to get mortally offended when we discuss condoms, basically to be you. You are one of the best dinner and a movie partners ever, and I hope you continue to be so once I can drink with you. Dan: your shoes were too big to fill, so I had to muddle through the best I could. Damn you for setting such a high standard for me to follow. But most importantly, you have been a friend when I needed one the most, and I can’t wait for you to get back so we can continue trips to the diner, video games until 5 a.m. and all the other things we do that are so bad for us but so much fun.
Ellen, Julie, Vic, GUWRFC and my real family: thank you for reminding me there is a big world out there. I forget that sometimes, and I eagerly await living in it with you next year. Natalie: I saved this until the last because it was the hardest and most important. Publicly, in print and via the zeroes and ones that make up the Internet, I apologize to you. I did you a huge wrong last year, and I still regret it. But you have been a true friend through all the crazy ups and downs of this year, and like a true friend, forgave me with grace. With you I will always have memories of orgo, piercing parties and, of course, anything chocolate. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Well, this is it. Maybe I do not need that much time to decide this paper has been worth it. I have been responsible, with tons of help, for the publication of 180 pages of newspaper, which, as my mother points out, looks good on a résumé. But I think what is more important is that I look back on this list of people and smile, reliving the fun we have had had and the friendship you have given me when I least deserved it. Yes, this paper made me miserable, and I sincerely hope that next year’s editors keep the perspective that I so handily lost last August. But I will miss being in the thick of things. I love this job, and, given the chance, I do not think I would have done it differently. Well, maybe I would have gone home first to see my parents. Maybe.
Sedney is editor in chief and a science, technology and international affairs junior.
Mary, Mike, Will and everyone who has made the fourth floor a home: we helped each other get through this year (helped and hindered, really) and inter-paper rivalries have never been so fun. Dave: you are my favorite token liberal, you know that? I missed having you here this semester to tell it like it is, to get mortally offended when we discuss condoms, basically to be you. You are one of the best dinner and a movie partners ever, and I hope you continue to be so once I can drink with you. Dan: your shoes were too big to fill, so I had to muddle through the best I could. Damn you for setting such a high standard for me to follow. But most importantly, you have been a friend when I needed one the most, and I can’t wait for you to get back so we can continue trips to the diner, video games until 5 a.m. and all the other things we do that are so bad for us but so much fun.
Ellen, Julie, Vic, GUWRFC and my real family: thank you for reminding me there is a big world out there. I forget that sometimes, and I eagerly await living in it with you next year. Natalie: I saved this until the last because it was the hardest and most important. Publicly, in print and via the zeroes and ones that make up the Internet, I apologize to you. I did you a huge wrong last year, and I still regret it. But you have been a true friend through all the crazy ups and downs of this year, and like a true friend, forgave me with grace. With you I will always have memories of orgo, piercing parties and, of course, anything chocolate. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Well, this is it. Maybe I do not need that much time to decide this paper has been worth it. I have been responsible, with tons of help, for the publication of 180 pages of newspaper, which, as my mother points out, looks good on a résumé. But I think what is more important is that I look back on this list of people and smile, reliving the fun we have had had and the friendship you have given me when I least deserved it. Yes, this paper made me miserable, and I sincerely hope that next year’s editors keep the perspective that I so handily lost last August. But I will miss being in the thick of things. I love this job, and, given the chance, I do not think I would have done it differently. Well, maybe I would have gone home first to see my parents. Maybe.
Sedney is editor in chief and a science, technology and international affairs junior.