<p>How great is it that we now live in the electronic age that we can read the school newspaper online. Son got accepted onto the school newspaper and now my wife and I can enjoy his articles from 3000 miles away. The old days of cutting out the articles and mailing them are over. Now we can just store the articles in Word documents. Hopefully, he is putting as much effort into his studies as he is in his news reporting.</p>
<p>I agree completely. I love reading my kid’s stuff without having to beg her to show it to me.</p>
<p>Yes, when older S was writing for his college newspaper, we enjoyed keeping up with him that way. We also learned that we could almost always contact him easily at the newspaper office. Unfortunately, that was because he spent most of him there instead of being in class, but that’s another issue and a long story…</p>
<p>Whether or not one’s college student writes for the school paper, it can be a good idea to use the school’s search engine to check for their name. After doing this, I was surprised to see in younger S’s newspaper a pix of him at a school event. I had even taken the picture, yet S had forgotten to tell me that he had passed along the pix to the student who was doing a story on the event.</p>
<p>when I hadn’t heard from my son in a while, I would e-mail that I knew he was alive as of 11 PM the night before, as I was able to read his story in the paper. That usually got me a call or e-mail!</p>
<p>During his freshman year my son was chosen to write a blog for his college’s web site, as a way of reaching prospective students and describing life at his college. It was a great opportunity to keep up with his experience. We always wished he would write more often…and this year I really miss it (altho last year’s blogs are still up, so I can reread all I want!). This year we have found him mentioned in his fraternity newsletter which can be found online.</p>
<p>My son doesn’t write for his paper, but it’s fun to read it on line anyway. I’m sure it’s twice as much fun when your kid has a byline. Congrats to him!</p>
<p>Oh, I agree! My S is regularly on the air for his campus radio station, covering sports. I can listen to him on my laptop thanks to the Internet!</p>
<p>I subscribe to the paper version of my son’s college paper (it’s weekly), have for years. Even though it’s online, I love getting the real thing in the mailbox. Look forward to it actually…usually comes Fridays, like it did today. He’s graduated, I still subscribe. You get to see things that sometimes aren’t online, like ads, recruiting announcements, crime reports, cartoons…the whole old-fashioned experience of lying in bed reading the paper. Cost is $37.50 per year, well worth it.</p>