After publishing this, issue 310 of the Chonnam Tribune with my junior reporters, I am just a few weeks away from leaving the Chonnam Tribune. If anyone asked me to choose one word to describe the Chonnam Tribune, I would say ”bittersweet”. If I look back my last terms as student reporter, even though there was lots of hardship, all things became a precious memory.
   Is there anything that you would be willing to change two years of your college life for? Would you believe that I exchanged my youth for the papers you simply pass by or often use as umbrellas on rainy days? For me and for the Chonnam Tribune reporters, the newspapers that were published were everything. We would smile with a satisfying article and cry over a minor spelling error. The Chonnam Tribune was a combination of our passion and efforts. I now realize how lucky I was to be a part of all that.
   The Chonnam Tribune was like a trap. I might have come in of my own free will, but getting out was another story. I either had to stay there until the end or had to be kicked out. And the worst thing was that the Chonnam Tribune absorbed large parts of my college life, making me totally crazy about it. After all, the Chonnam Tribune qualified me as a person passionate enough to devote myself to something without expecting anything in return. From planning to proofreading until late at night for an issue, I learned what companionship and working together truly meant, and it gave me some valuable colleagues.
There is no doubt that the Chonnam Tribune was a charming experience, but it would be a total lie if I were to say that there was not one moment I wanted to quit. Actually, now I feel a sort of frustration for leaving Chonnam Tribune but whenever I’m having a difficult time for the last two years, I felt like I wanted to get out of this line of work. But, now I think that making the decision to stick to it has been good. This experience may be just a small part of my whole life, but I believe that nothing is as valuable as what I learned for last two years.
For the past few days, I have been trying to find some fascinating topics to write about in my last column. I could not come up with any other topic for my last piece. So, I wrote how I felt as a Tribune reporter for two years.
 
By Park Hyo-gyeong, Head Student Editor
#310 Desk Column
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