My first year with Bartleby was through the conventional method of serving through an internship. I was given the title of Promotion (Advertising) and Event Planning. Bartleby didn't have events at least not till the last year I served when we had a "Roll Out Party." My first time serving I did very little.

The the next three years I worked on the Bartleby Journal as a volunteer. My second year was grueling. I was a Non-fiction Reviewer and had to read and grade over 60 submissions. This particular year, few people signed up for the challenge of reviewing Art submissions. Bartelby yearly receives over 200 submissions in the category of Art. This particular year I also pinched-hit as an Art reviewer in order to narrow the field. The actual layout is done during the Winter Break in Quark and Photoshop. At the time I didn't have heavy experience using either of these but I was a power user of Adobe Pagemaker. We put in 18 hour days for about 20 days until the entire layout was done and then sent off to a small publishing house for three-color press and binding. It was fun.

In my third year of service I was the Non-fiction Assistant Editor and in my fourth year, I was promoted to Non-fiction Editor responsible for overseeing five reviewers. I had to design the scoring rubric and speak with my team as to what I thought was a submission of publication. For the most part, I left my team alone. I still reviewed every submission but did not score. I thought that if I scored it would influence the group and I wanted my reviewers to think for themselves. It was interesting because when it came to the end it became necessary to point to some of the finer aspects of the last remaining three submissions because the differences were subtle. This was tough because again, I wanted them to chose. I wanted them to tell me what was best and why. My team did their job marvelously. We were given a treat when the authors who had taken first in their particular category came in and read their submissions during the "Roll Out Party."