Controlling caffeine habit good for health

Hey, did you know your last name means “fish”?

“After consuming a few pots of coffee in a row, I sometimes get a nosebleed, though I’m not sure if the two are correlated.”

I think I can solve your problem for you….
Option A: Better time management
Option B: Decaf?

We are all a little dumber after reading this, may God have mercy on your soul. Seriously, this whining about the “extreme multitasking skills will be used to squeeze out 70 working hours per week” is laughable. I know for a fact that the fishlady has no idea about real work at all.

Week after week I see the same comments from the same boring folks. If you do not like this student who writes for a student paper, then 1) do not read her articles 2) find a paper that you are more satisfied with. Not only are the comments always negative for this writer but 9 times out of 10 these folks can be found commenting on other SN articles with the same negative tone. Find another hobby. I’ve enjoyed for the most part, the comment section when it adds value to the article. These comments, found here and elsewhere are a waste of space.

“Perhaps the lack of diversity on the editorial board (comprised of 95% white liberal women) is contributing to this abeyance of intellectual stimulation.”

So write something better.

TSN is actually a pretty good newspaper. Have you been to other universities, like Western Michigan, and looked at their papers? If you did, then you might not take TSN for granted so much….

Hey, Hey Please…If you don’t want to fund “this kind of drivel,” at the start of each semester you can go to Student Services and get a refund on your State News tax. If I remember correctly, it is $4. So go get your money, buy a sandwich at Jimmy John’s, and stop whining.

Dan, I’m confused. If the editorial board is “95% white liberal women” does that mean James Harrison and Justin Harris are both 85% female?

She suffers from caffeine addiction, huh? I just thought she suffered from TBS (terrible writer syndrome)

I’ll tell you way I am upset. Because I’ve tried to join this paper because I believe I am a talented writer. I never got an interview. I’m not a journalism major. I think, and I know how modest this sounds, that that’s the reason I never got a shot. So, maybe it unfair, but yes, I take liberty a bit when the work that is being put out is consistently horrible.

I enjoyed this article.

Time fore more coffee!

“I’ll tell you way I am upset. Because I’ve tried to join this paper because I believe I am a talented writer. I never got an interview.”

So this is all sour grapes on your part? Wow.

Did you stop to think that maybe they were full up and didn’t need to interview you, or that maybe – just maybe – you aren’t nearly as talented as you think you are?

Or maybe you’re one of those folks who think that listing how bad the paper is on your application, and how you’ll fix things if they let you on, is the way to ingratiate yourself with a potential employer.

Time for a new job search, my friend. I see french fries in your future. Maybe your talent will become evident when boiled in oil.

“Do you think this is a well written?”

“A well written…” what?

Did you mean to say “Do you think this is well written?” or “Do you think this is a well-written column?”

Looks like your talent needs some more time hovering over the fry vats. Maybe you can write about that.

To answer what I THINK your question is, however, I don’t think that this is poorly-written. It’s lively and slice-of-life, and fairly relevant to college students, especially with final projects and final exams coming up. I think it needs a better ending, yes, but she’s got the lead-off and middle down well.

It’s not going to win any awards for hard-hitting journalism, no. But not every column has to be a contender. Sometimes it’s nice to open the op-ed page and have a chuckle with someone, as opposed to AT someone. This works nicely.

Here’s a tip, fry-guy. Talent alone does not guarantee you anything, nor entitle you to anything, especially when it comes to writing. There are thousands of “writers” out there and only hundreds of opportunities – do the math. You have to persevere in the field if you want to get anywhere, and sometimes you just have to find out who to talk to, and when, and be lucky enough to get your foot in the door before it closes. And if you don’t like them apples, build your own apple cart.

I mean, hell, if you put a tenth of the effort you put into being an ass on these forums into making your own platform to publish from, you’d be well past this nonsense by now, wouldn’t you?

“I have made my own steps. Done my own writing. On my on blog. For years.”

Oh Goddess, then you really ARE pathetic to be engaging in this kind of nonsense. Please give it up. You’ll thank yourself in a couple of years.

“But your whole point of talking to the right person and luck with feet in doors is ridiculous.”

No, it’s reality.

There is talent aplenty in the world, in any field. In some fields, talent alone will open the door, but that’s because there are so few talented people who are doing it competently that they can essentially write their own rules. In journalism, or any kind of writing, it’ll help get you noticed (maybe) and keep you on the job (hopefully) but it won’t open the door FOR you. That has to be done BY you, by persevering and making contacts and getting in at the right time.

It’s not that talent doesn’t matter. It’s that it doesn’t guarantee you anything, or entitle you to anything.

Did no one tell you this?

“You didn’t read my whole entry, or you’re a moron. I said I get it.”

If you did, then you did so poorly. And between that and your other postings, I think I can understand why you didn’t merit an interview.

Back to the blog, fry guy! Great things await.

I’m sorry, you had points? I didn’t see them.

But yes, this was a waste of time. You’re probably going to continue being upset at the State News because they won’t give you an interview. And that means you will continue reminding Ms. Poisson that her last name means “Fish” in French on each and every column of hers until she leaves her writing gig here, and goes off to bigger and better things – things you could have beaten her to, if only you’d spent more time working around and above the hands who kept you down and back, instead of trying to bite them out of spite.

Love you too, Fish Fry Guy.

“your incessant arguing on the internet makes me sad for you.”

Some have to dance, some have to kill. ; )