In high school, I worked on my campus newspaper. I started out as a staff reporter and became an editor within a year. For two years in a row, I worked with some of my best friends to put together the paper and it was a crazy time. We are not normal people.

My own personal experience as told by New Girl:

1. You have a love-hate relationship with your editor-in-chief.

They're the boss for a reason. You can't love your boss all the time, no matter how friendly you are. And although they were awful, you loved them anyways. But, there was probably a point when you and the rest of the board planned a rebellion.

2. You spent 2/3 of the time you had to work, not working.

Sometimes you had a month, sometimes you had two weeks, but either way, you did no work for as long as possible.

3. You stayed well past 5 o'clock on layout day and got absolutely nothing productive done.

Layout is when you're supposed to get the paper, for the most part, put together. But, instead of turning on Indesign, like the good little editor you were, you turned on music and started studying for another class. Or you just spent the whole time wandering around the office doing weird stuff. In my own case, I would turn on Disney music and we would all sing along until we got yelled at for not working.

4. You didn't even bother to read the writers article before putting it in the paper.

You keep telling yourself that "nobody reads this anyways, who's going to notice?" And then, of course, people notice.

5. You and the board loudly complained about not getting paid enough.

...but you didn't get paid at all because it was a high school newspaper.

6. When deadline hit, you pretty much gave up trying to make it on time.

You always had a couple more pages to do and the deadline was at three... You always had to call for an extension anyways, so take your time.

7. When it was finally distributing day and you could lean back and look at the train-wreck you created.

You were tired and ready for it to be over, so you submitted what pages you had and came out with something less than mediocre.

8. You cringed every time you saw a mistake in an article, but blamed the writers anyway (see #3).

In reality, it was your job to make sure everything was spelled correctly and properly worded, but that never happened.

9. You vowed to make the paper so much better the next time.

You didn't want to be late next time, you wanted to be on top of everything and get on track.

10. But, who were you kidding? That didn't happen. You start the process all over again.