Staff of The D Loves the D

The student writers of The Dartmouth are a diverse group of students, hailing from all over the globe. There are members of each of the four classes, and writers with writing styles that vary from hard news to flowery editorials. But they all have one thing in common: they love the D.

“I don’t know what it is that I love so much about the D,” said one news writer. “One thing that I really love about the D is how firm it is. Other things in this crazy world flip-flop all the time, but the D knows what it is and knows what it wants and refuses to apologize for it.”

Some members of the directorate expressed concerns that, from time to time, the D can seem to swallow their lives. The only thing to do, they said, is to be proactive and swallow the D before it can swallow you.

“On an unrelated note,” another news writer said, “I hate this whole shift to online that’s been happening. Looking at the D online is OK, and it’s definitely better than nothing, but there is just nothing like actually holding the D in your hands. It has such a great texture, and you really can’t get the same physical satisfaction from looking at it online.”

Interestingly enough, different members of the staff said that they all have vastly different experiences with the D. Some have a love/hate relationship with it, while others talked about the endless needs of the D, and others still said that they were afraid of the D.

“Being afraid of the D is a common experience for our freshman writers,” said an editor. “I mean, you put some work in on it, and then the next thing you know, your name is being disseminated to thousands of people. You learn to deal with the pressure as you get older, but there’s still always a little bit of nervousness around the D.”

The same editor went on to talk about how the D is never permanently satisfied.

“So you do your work for the D for one day, and you think you’re done. But that’s never the case. Sometimes you get called back in later that night to do a little bit more work on the D. And even if that doesn’t happen, you know that the D’s going to need you tomorrow. It can be tiring. The worst is when you put in a lot of work on something for the D, and then literally nothing comes out as a result of it. Frustrating work.”

At the end of the day, though, the D going to be a part of most our lives, whether we like it or not. One editor gave the Dunyun a final piece of advice: “Love the D, and it will love you.”