Andrew Callaghan

Wow, that is fucking incredible.

Wow, that is fucking incredible.

Wow, that is fucking incredible.

I'd be like, I want to be a vice reporter.

Right.

They would end up kind of selling out by the time I graduated.

But digressing, first day I start working for the Maroon and I'm telling my editor-in-chief about all these stories I want to do.

Like I want to do something about voodoo practitioners in New Orleans or the post-Katrina gentrification or all this shit, the history of the streetcar.

And he's like, I just remember he sent me an email in all caps and he said, not relevant.

Whoa.

And I was like, what do you mean?

And he told me, he's like, this newsroom has a hierarchy.

You're a freshman at this.

This is your first week writing for the school newspaper.

If you want enough clout in the newsroom to pitch your own stories, you have to just do these bulletins for like a year straight.

Yeah, my first day of freshman year at Loyola, like I always knew I wanted to be a journalist. So I signed up for this student newspaper called The Maroon. And it was actually, like, not the most gratifying experience because I wanted to be a gonzo journalist, like, through and through from Mr. Shaw's class on. And also, Vice was in their heyday back then.

Yeah, my first day of freshman year at Loyola, like I always knew I wanted to be a journalist. So I signed up for this student newspaper called The Maroon. And it was actually, like, not the most gratifying experience because I wanted to be a gonzo journalist, like, through and through from Mr. Shaw's class on. And also, Vice was in their heyday back then.

Yeah, my first day of freshman year at Loyola, like I always knew I wanted to be a journalist. So I signed up for this student newspaper called The Maroon. And it was actually, like, not the most gratifying experience because I wanted to be a gonzo journalist, like, through and through from Mr. Shaw's class on. And also, Vice was in their heyday back then.

So I had to write about stuff like English department tries to seek new writers.

Yeah.