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Many of my non-Crimson friends think doing FM is tantamount to sadomasochism (with me on the abuse-receiving end, obviously). FM seems to chew the execs up every Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday night, and spit us back out Wednesday morning a little unshowered and a lot sleep-deprived. Even when we leave 14 Plympton, FM follows us home, making demands via e-mail and haunting our dreams...
...there’s a number of very real reasons I kept coming back for more. FM has been the most challenging, exhilarating, frustrating, and educational experience of my life at Harvard. I’m not a journalism junkie, and I certainly don’t have journalistic aspirations, but being at 14 Plympton has kind of been an embedded journalistic experience: I observed the “pros,” I learned about what we’re supposed to do, and occasionally I contributed...
When I was a naïve, wide-eyed freshman in a bare-bones FM comp (oh, how things don’t change), I learned from my editors and from my news-comping, soon-to-be-blockmate. Amit R. Paley ’04 taught me how to make an FTM work and how to stand up to a source. When I did a research assistant stint for Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, he treated me like someone who deserved to hear his thoughts about where his scrutiny was going. I knew nothing...
...listening quietly as she and Liz F. Maher ’04 talked in the office. But also, I shot for associate editor and got it. And in my year as associate, I learned: in the production suite, in the newsroom, in the FM office. I watched in awe as Mollie H. Chen ’05 worked her organizational magic, and as Sarah M. Seltzer ’05 made stories funnier, wittier, more nuanced...
Usually the cover of FM elaborates: “FM: The weekend magazine of the Harvard Crimson.” Other times, it says...