Not knowing all the answers

The most interesting person I've met during the orientation so far is Joe Grimm (recruiting/development editor at the Detroit Free Press). Joe struck up a conversation with me about my introduction speech Thursday night. What helped me most was that he made me realize that I'm not close to knowing everything that an editor might ask of me. I need to realize that it's OK to not know the answer to a question and that it would reflect poorly on me to attempt to wing it.

I hope to have a deeper discussion with Joe as the weekend continues.

-- Joe Ruiz, Texas State University, San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times