No Enthu No Team

My biggest problem  is my obsession with excitement. I am perpetually excited guy. I am excited about my work, sports, friends, strangers, talking, walking, running, biking, eating, cooking, smoking, drinking, chatting, movies, music. Even at the age of 27 when people start thinking of settling down with family (some have already married with kids) , I still feel 18. There is still so much to see, so much to learn, so much to discover. (Ofcourse love, family, children are beautifull things to discover, but it can still wait)

One of the things which I discovered recently and which is exciting my intellectual senses beyond my wildest imagination is Journalism. I have joined a Student Editorial Team of TU Delta, an independent newspaper for the Technological University of Delft. This special team is working on TU Delta 18, which will be released on May 28 2009. 

TU DELTA-18

The team consists of around 20 students , half of them are Dutch and rest international. We have been given the challenge to make the Newspaper more appealing and relevant to students. 

There is a lot of work to be done. And right from the day one we have been brainstorming ideas towards improvement of the newspaper.  This newspaper will be by the students, for the students and of the students.

sTUDelta-18

I am the cartoonist of this paper. Edgar, one of the coordinator of this team has promised to arrange a PC-drawing Tablet for me. I can use it to draw cartoons directly into the computer and process it using Photoshop.Also, I am working together with different students on various articles. Since these articles are going to be published in Newspaper, we have to be careful with the facts and figures and follow some guidelines on professional journalism. This makes the task challenging but exciting as well

I am working harder and harder on this project. The articles are always on the back of my mind when am working , sleeping or having normal conversation with friends. Every thing I see, hear or feel is processed by brain cell for worthiness of an article in the Newspaper. New ideas which keep popping in my head, I jot them down , to explore its possibilities later.

However, the problem starts when your enthusiasm and excitement is not shared by few people working with you. The purpose behind creation of this special editorial team is not only to create a student's newspaper  but also provide a platform where dutch and international students can work together, to bridge a social divide which plagues the university campus. However, the goals of the team cannot be fulfilled if the team-members fail to show up in the meetings and work alone on their respective articles. If they were so busy , they should never have volunteered to join team. If they are such good writers , they should have sent their articles to the full time editors and get them published in a regular TUDelta newspaper. We do not need your literary skills and past editorial experiences and neither your apologies for absence in the meetings or blackboard discussions. 

What we need is your enthusiasm. A passion to participate. A love for integration.