As I struggled to get through the first issues of The Crusader, I realized that I never really thought about all the work that goes in to getting a project done. All the late nights, the scrambling to produce an award winning paper didn’t really sink in until I became the editor. I became well aware of all the time that is put into having a paper out and ready to go for the student body. Not many people know that sometimes the staff is here until the wee hours of the morning to ensure that the students get a quality paper. In today’s society we don’t really understand that the finished work we see is not even the half of what the person or people in charge had to go through to produce the finish product that you are seeing. I’m almost positive that unless a student was involved in the party auction that they couldn’t tell me all the hours that were put in to making the event a success. None of us know how much work an athlete puts in to making sure that his or her team have a good game. I always hear students saying that they are not involved in an activity or in a club because they are just too busy. What does busy really mean? Everyone has a different definition for the word or state of being busy. Everyone feels that what they have going on is more important than whatever someone else is doing. Yet, there are people who still find the way to help out with clubs or volunteer for projects being used. Instead of people criticizing a finished work or complaining about something not being done correctly, students should realize that what you see is definitely not what you get. The complications that lead to having a successful finished product are often ignored by the audience that it was provided for. We as a society need to be less critical and more supportive as to what our peers do. I don’t know how many times I have heard my mother say “Well just how long does it take to create a newspaper. What’s so hard about it that is takes up 85 percent of your time?” She didn’t understand the process until I showed her just how everything worked. In order for her to understand I had to show her the behind the scenes. Sometimes it’s not possibly to show the inner workings of a project. If all of us were able to just take a breather from our so called “busy” schedule we might be able to appreciate everything that is going on around us, especially here at the college.