It has come to our attention that some people feel that working for a college newspaper is not considered a “real job.”

We at The Daily Eastern News strongly disagree with this perception, considering we all work extremely hard in our positions to produce a daily paper.

Throughout the very short 24 hours in each day, we all are in and out of the newsroom working on stories, editing pages and stories, uploading photos and doing whatever we can to make sure our daily paper is published in a smooth, professional process.

Many of us, as journalism majors, have the majority of our classes in Buzzard Hall, where the newsroom is located, so it is not unusual for any of us to be in classes all day and in the newsroom at night, spending our entire day in the building.

The Daily Eastern News is also one of the only college newspapers that is published daily, Monday through Friday, every week.

That is something that we work extremely hard to accomplish, and it is not always easy.

Often we find ourselves dealing with computer problems, stories not coming in on time and/or other setbacks.

Regardless, we have never let these setbacks prevent our paper from being published each day.

There have been several times that we have been so busy in the newsroom that we often do not get the chance to go home until sometimes after midnight.

This of course isn’t always the case, but it has happened before.

We at The Daily Eastern News do not regret the work that we do to keep the newspaper alive; in fact, we pride ourselves in being part of a publication that has been in existence for 103 years.

We simply ask that the people who feel our jobs are not “important” consider all the hard work we put in before spewing false and negative comments.

For those of you who feel that our work is not considered “real” or “serious,” we invite you to pop in any night before 11 p.m. and observe a typical evening of work. If that does not work for you, maybe you should pick up a copy of our newspaper and spend some time reading it.