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Hey, I'm Mara. I love dancing. It's practically my favourite thing to do. I love House, R&B, pretty much everything with a good beat, and Benny Benassi is my hero; that's why my column is a shrine to him. I graduated this year and am now in my first year of college where I'm trying to pick a major. Chances are you'll see some of my Psychology questions floating around somewhere here. I'm also extremely interested in Political Science too because I, like half the people living in Canada, somehow want to change the world. I particularly want to find a cure for poverty, corruption, cancer, AIDS and George Bush because honestly, I think those are the biggest problems we have right now. I have decided that maybe I should take the time to live a little before I start though because I have a good fifty years ahead of me to fix all the issues there are. Currently my life consists of: studying, working, socializing, eating and ocassionaly sleeping. I spent practically all of my high school life being a delinquent and partying to huge extents until I discovered my brain sometime in the middle of my senior year. I still like to have a good time every once in a while but you always need to find that balance (I haven't exactly found it yet but I'm getting close). Unfortunatley, a habit that has stuck with me from school is my obsessive gossiping. I just can't stop and you know, an article in Cosmo says that gossipers are healthier people because they bond over it? Who would have thought? Anyway, I do have my limitations and I don't condone nasty, brutal gossiping and I don't gossip about anything my friends have told me in confidence or something about someone else that they have slipped to me, however, if I find you in a washroom at a random party making out with my bestfriends's boyfriend, a few people are probably going to hear about it. Actually, more than a few people will hear about it because one of my absolute pet peeves is parties where the all the bathrooms are occupied due to sexual activity or... puking activity. Sooooo what else is there to know about me? My favourite thing in the world is shopping and my worst fear is existantialism. I am OCDey in a clinical way so you can ask me questions about that. You can ask me practically anything you want except for dumb questions but I'm not going to answer them in my little column here because it's a huge waste of space when I could be writing about myself (Click 'LookIt' on my menubar for answers to dumb questions so you don't have to embarass yourself asking them and getting bitched out from me). What I can do, is offer you three pieces of truly inspirational advice. Firstly, never live your life by what others want of you, cherish yourself and everyone around you, and never beat yourself down about anything you couldn't have avoided. Secondly, donate at least ten percent of the income you earn in your life to someone who needs it. Lastly, never get into a bulldozer when you're under the influence and start driving it towards a poor freshmen (I am never going to another kegger ever again... ever). Ok, I'll shut up now. You can start asking me stuff, if you haven't hit the back button already.
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Does anybody have any experience/tips with modular design for yearbooks? I am the editor of the yearbook this year and I am looking for new ideas and tips on anything that has to do with yearbooks and magazines. If it helps, our theme is "Not your average..." and we're carrying it out through the book by saying "Not your average athlete" and "Not your average first day", etc. Thank you!
Congrats on getting the position. I spent the last year, my graduating year, as chief editor and I tried really hard to make it special for my class. But the first thing you need to remember is that you can't make everyone happy, I spent so much time running around after everyone trying to please them all but realized that complete satisfaction would never be possible so I settled for what the majority wanted.
I like your theme except it's sometimes hard to incorporate something so specific into a yearbook. This year our theme was time. We used clocks as layouts and we used digital page markers. We alternated every spread to fade out in gray to the back of the book. The year before that, the theme was barcode. We had barcodes hidden and imbedded into the book, sometimes waving and morphing into a zebra print. Three years ago, the theme was definition, with the dictionary definitions of friendship all around the book and we scanned and used pages of the dictionary for our backgrounds. I suggest using the "Not your average..." as a general tagline and come up with a stronger theme.
You also need to make sure the yearbook is continuous. The sidebar or header needs to be the same throughout the entire book and so do the numbers. Make sure that a few of the layouts repeat themselves too. It seems like a simple process but keep double-checking. I’ve had a lot of kids just make up their own pages so the entire section ended up looking like AB CD EF CD AB GF EF and it looked oddly out of place.
Make sure you keep editing the pages and checking them over. I had the basic rule that a spread needed to complete four steps before being sent:
1. Finished and checked by creator
2. Checked by three peers
3. Checked by two editors
4. Checked by me or my sub
It’s a lengthy process but it makes the book foolproof and mistakes rarely slip through.
Keep in touch with the publishing company and make sure you’re clear on deadlines and –meet- the deadlines. Last year they published the original copies we sent them without replacing the fixed pages we sent later so we ended up doing 2 months of extra work to fix pages and they didn’t get published.
Lastly, remember to be patient. Don’t alienate yourself from anyone else working on the yearbook or go on a power trip. The rest of the class voted the chief editor out three years ago.
Keep a copy of the yearbook with you incase you have a job interview relating to it. When the interviewer asks you to tell him a little about yourself, plant the book in front of him and say, “I was in charge of creating this book and supervising however-many people et cetera”
Aside from that, good luck. It’s a tough job, but the right person can make it amazing.
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