In just three of the fastest years of my life, I have done everything someone could ever hope to do in college, at least if that someone is the type to spend way too long at the newspaper building and never say no to work. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Starting with one of my first meetings freshman year, where no one wanted the football home opener and I figured I knew what I was doing just enough to take it. To my latest office hours where I was surrounded by the freshman and sophomore photographers intentionally trying to make me feel old, I haven’t had a job before that makes me reflect more on who I am and how I want to be seen more than my two years as Photo Editor.
Whether it was mentoring new photographers, or talking with my amazing friends and coworkers, I don’t think I ever walked into the Daily Campus without walking out slightly changed (and I walked in and out of there a lot).
I’m going to miss fighting with Emma over the dumbest things imaginable, before we move on to making fun of the photo section’s ice breaker answers. Or Sydney and Ella who, even when they didn’t mean to be, were always the perfect comic relief.
To my dear friend Ky’Lynn, I’ll miss the gossip in the digital and then the photo office, I hope most of the prophecies we made never come true. Thank you Karla, for always keeping me humble, even when I really didn’t need to be.
To Jenna, Connor and Hayden thank you for rivaling my time spent in the office and letting me talk at you even when you both had work and I definitely didn’t.
Thank you, Simon, for always being the best example of who I should strive to be. To Jake, Bella and Daisy for being the best travel partners and keeping me sane on those trips.
I cannot wait to see what the future holds for this amazing photo section. To Emma, Madison, Nora, Morgan, Parker and Alex, I know you all will make this section greater than it was before you got here, because that is just the kind of people you all are.
To those reading go out there and be great; go join the DC, take photos and most importantly cherish your time here at UConn.