The Rambler’s New Online Home

This year I am the editor-in-chief, and last year I was the copy editor-in-chief. My role is to read every single article for content. I advocate for my writers and look over everything with the faculty advisor and the Upper School Director before everything gets published. I also control the overall scheduling for each issue. 

I loved writing, so I joined freshman year and pitched a short story serial. Everyone was so welcoming and so encouraging—I don’t think I would be here today without the upperclassmen at the time encouraging me like that. I also feel like that taught me how to edit, and I did a lot of copy editing my sophomore year.

We consistently have a core team of eight-to-ten people. We publish once a month, typically about six to ten articles, a games section, and art. Usually a staff artist works with a writer to create art for the articles. Currently our most popular section is the horoscope (laughs). I think people just love hearing something about themselves and reading something that is personalized.

My favorite part is the way I get to see the hidden talents of people across the different grades. When I have their articles in front of me, it’s so interesting to see this part of them I didn’t know and get to kind of meet them in that way. The nicest thing about The Rambler is that we’re a unit, but there’s a lot of individuality.

It’s so interesting, because in some sense I was taught to run The Rambler by people a few years older than me, but then I’m also participating in a thing that existed almost 100 years ago. Every so often I’ll have a chance to look through archives and see that I’m part of this tradition that’s lasted decades and decades. (Ed note: you can view old issues of The Rambler through the Bush Archives website). 

The thing about The Rambler, Bush students think about things very differently. I saw articles on political trends, philosophy, not necessarily about the school, but larger scale events, often written in amusing and different ways. You could say we’re a quirky bunch.

It was actually our copy-editor in chief Teoman C. ’25’s idea. Finally over winter break, I drafted the website myself on Wix. It was a lot of fun. I really like designing things. Teoman will take over the website after I graduate, so I hope it continues on. It would be really cool to get an archive side to that website as well.