TKS Editors Blog

This post is a thank-you to anyone who has a friend working on TKS. Because, let it be known: if you are friends with a TKS editor, you have a lot to put up with.

You are our main source of quotes. Yes, we try not to interview friends, but when we’re writing an article at 1:55 a.m. and the only person around is you, our close friend who we’ve known since freshmen year, you’re going to be giving a quote, whether or not you know anything about our topic or not. Also, you’d better be articulate about it.

Secondly, you will be asked at least once a week whether or not you want to write for us. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to and it doesn’t matter how many times you say no. At some point, you’ll be writing an article for us. It’s far easier for me to count the number of friends I haven’t gotten to write an article than the number of friends I have. If I catch the flu right before I’m supposed to go cover The Crucible, guess who I’m going to call to beg to please, please do it for me just this once.

Also, we never shut up about TKS. Ever. As soon as the new issue comes out, we have to read it and critique it. We have to turn every thought into a potential article. We have to go to meetings all the time and you can only find us on Wednesdays if you’re willing to brave the long shadow of the Publications Office. You don’t want to go to the Gizmo with us because we’re bound to run into another editor and discuss the latest TKS gossip for at least half an hour (and, trust me, there’s always TKS gossip). We won’t go to Union Board events without a reporter’s notebook and we’ll be sure to embarrass you afterward as we run up to random strangers and ask their opinion on the act of the evening.

We have our writers interview our friends. We text them at odd hours asking for phone numbers and names of people they know who we don’t. We drag them to our TKS parties, even if what they actually wanted to do was somewhere on the other side of campus. We use them as stress relief when something TKS-related goes wrong (often). Yes, it can be safely said: although they might not work for TKS, a lot of our friends are convinced they do.

It should also be said, though, that we truly appreciate it. You who have unintentionally become our official liaison into the music department, you who find yourself quoted week after week, you who continue letting us rant and keep going to Union Board events with us and still hang out in the Gizmo even though we might show up: thank you. You might not work for the paper, but you’re a large part of why we’re sane (or insane) enough to keep doing so.