School Yearbook - help me decide please!

Hi all,

So here’s the deal: I was a section editor for my college’s yearbook this past year - a pretty large book that required a huge amount of dedication from myself and the rest of the staff. Being that the semester’s ending, the new editors-in-chief want to know whether I want to come back on as an editor for next year.

I can’t decide whether or not I should. I figure it’s obviously good experience (to some degree) and I was happy with the end product, however … the process was nightmareish. The book isn’t run effectively at all and the process for ecruing all of my content was highly stressful and a lot to deal with on top of school.

So basically I’m asking how much it would hurt me to not go back next year. I have an internship at a national magazine in New York over the summer, a huge workload next semester as a senior starting to complete major requirements, and I was hoping to intern during the semester, perhaps. I also write and copy-edit very actively for the campus newspaper - where I don’t get much experience as a section editor unfortunately. I’d like going back to the yearbook, but I’m afraid I’ll want to jump off a cliff dealing with all that again and I won’t have time to intern/write as much for the paper/enjoy my senior year.

Anyone out there with have any advice for me? Am I missing a good opportunity basically being handed to me or is one year on the yearbook staff as an editor enough to make a statment? Or am I being silly and nothing matters as much as interning? Any help would be great…thanks so much and sorry for my lengthiness. :)