Today someone asked me, “Hey Ken, how many design meetings do you think you’ve attended over the years?”
After recovering from the mental trauma of attempting to conceptualize that number, I realized the question epitomized the sheer amount of time I’ve spent at the Daily Bruin and the countless forests we have decimated.
When I first came to the Daily Bruin, I didn’t envision myself being where I am today. Four years can really change a person.
But rather than delve into philosophical discussion, let me just get to the point.
Thank you to everyone on this year’s staff. There have been countless good times, bad times and dull times, but mostly good. With all due respect to other years, this has been my favorite staff during my four years at The Bruin. A large part of that is probably because I met and talked to so many people, and while the staff is so enormous that getting to know everyone is nearly impossible, I do appreciate all the work everyone has done.
My biggest goal at the beginning of the year was to make sure this staff would function and execute production perfectly, and I was impressed with the results. Everyone should be proud with how we’ve come together to put forth such an award-winning, nationally recognized, community-enriching publication at such a furious pace.
Thus I leave everyone with my thanks ““ and memories like stripper ads, double pants, eritorship, “I spinning-wheel K4,” endless sports inserts, crazed unnamed stew-wielding senior staffers at retreat, fuzzy monitors, perpetually broken copy machines and printers, and scavenging for Comm. Board leftovers.
Robinson was the 2007-2008 managing editor and was considering making his -30- column a treasure hunt or MadLibs.