I\u2019m a journalism student and as such I\u2019ve written my fair share of articles. From op-eds to features, to listicles to reviews, I\u2019ve written all different kinds of pieces. This semester, though, I started writing something a bit funnier– I started satire.<\/p>\n
During the summer, I applied to join\u00a0<\/span>The Bunion<\/em>, Boston University\u2019s satire news publication. Now satire has always been a thing that interested me, I\u2019ve been a fan of\u00a0<\/span>The Onion<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>for a long time and about a year ago I found out about\u00a0<\/span>The Hard Times<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Hard Drive<\/em>, who make fun of punk music and video game scenes respectively. I was bit by the satire bug last year and when I saw The Bunion was looking for staff writers, I submitted my application almost immediately. I say almost immediately because there was a very important part of the application I was having a hard time with: the article submission.<\/p>\n I had to write an article to finish my application. Luckily, I zeroed in on what I was gonna write about pretty quickly. At the beginning of the summer, I got a notification on Facebook about a post somebody made on the Official Boston University Class of 2020 group. I hadn\u2019t checked the Class of 2020 Facebook group since my Freshman year, so I clicked on the notification and browsed the group to see what my fellow rising juniors were up to. As I found out, the group had become a wasteland. Nobody had posted anything on the group in a long time, I guess like me a lot of people had forgotten about it. Essentially the Facebook group was now a ghost town, people were still in the group but nobody posted anything. I thought this might be something funny to write about so I took it and ran with it.<\/p>\n Choosing a topic to write about was easy, the hard part was actually writing it. At first I wrote the article with the idea of the Facebook group being a literal ghost town, a remnant from the Wild Wild West, and there was a sheriff of sorts that would protect the group from any new posts. I worked on it for a couple of days until I finally gave up on making it work. The whole cowboy-sheriff thing proved to be too complicated, since I realized I knew absolutely nothing about cowboys. I scrapped the whole thing. I settled on just writing down my raw thoughts and put a sort of journalistic spin on it. That was easier, but it really wasn\u2019t funny. It kinda just read as a rant that didn\u2019t really go anywhere, but I guess the editors liked it enough to have me join the team.<\/p>\n I got a chance to rework the article a couple weeks ago. After going to writer meetings, talking to fellow\u00a0<\/span>Bunion<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Staff Writers, and getting to write pieces of satire on other topics, I finally got what it took to make my first article work. The first thing I did was pretty much erase most of it. A lot of what I wrote down just didn\u2019t work, or only I found funny. I then made my target more specific and I gave it actual jokes. I basically reworked the whole thing.<\/p>\n It felt nice working on my first article again; it was almost as if I had come full circle. In the short time I\u2019ve been with\u00a0<\/span>The Bunion<\/em>, I\u2019ve really learned a lot. If you\u2019re interested in reading my articles and other articles made by even funnier people, check them out over at\u00a0<\/span>thebunionpaper.com<\/a><\/p>\n P.S. Here\u2019s a link to my reworked first article:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/thebunionpaper.com\/student-makes-post-on-bu-facebook-group-as-if-anybody-is-gonna-look-at-it<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m a journalism student and as such I\u2019ve written my fair share of articles. From op-eds to features, to listicles to reviews, I\u2019ve written all different kinds of pieces. This semester, though, I started writing something a bit funnier– I started satire. 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