Raechel Huizinga, Editor in Chief
This year, the Journal house was mostly empty.
190 University Ave., for me, had always been a hub of activity: layout room laughter, couch room banter, a place to hang out in between classes, last-minute writing, and just plain chaos. Losing all of that would...
Meredith Wilson-Smith, Editor in Chief
When I walked into 190 University Avenue on May 1 and saw my name on the office door, I burst into tears.
You never know how badly you want something, nor how overwhelmingly happy you are to get it, until it’s in front of you.
Two years before, I felt the same...
Nick Pearce, Editor in Chief
This must be some mistake.
Four years ago, I was making anxious laps around University Avenue because I left for my first Journal job interview an hour early. Jittery and nervous, I thought I bombed it. The phone call offering me a job a few days later still hasn’t...
Nick Pearce, Editor in Chief
This must be some mistake.
Four years ago, I was making anxious laps around University Avenue because I left for my first Journal job interview an hour early. Jittery and nervous, I thought I bombed it. The phone call offering me a job a few days later still hasn’t...
Meg Glover, Managing Editor
Sitting here writing my last words in an office I feel I’ve only just come to know, I can feel a sizeable knot forming in the pit of my stomach.
Whether it’s nerves, pride, disbelief or an unsettled combination of the three, I’m not quite sure. What I am sure of is that...
Jane Willsie
Editor in Chief
I’ve been writing these words in my head for the last 12 months. I’ve been revising and rewriting as I went, as the things I thought I’d be saying by the end of this year became less and less true.
There’s a saying, something about a fool and a hopeless cause, that’s...
Sebastian Leck,Editor in Chief
It’s appropriate that I write this quickly while under stress.
How better to end my year than with the time-honoured tradition of just barely meeting the deadline, while juggling what feels like 50 other things I have to do.
I’ll miss this place. It may not feel like...
Jake Edmiston
Editor in Chief
I’ve got 20 inches of newsprint to fill, and I’m thinking about urine. The urine that’s flowed into the toilets at the Journal office, containing within it enough caffeine to kill a school of fish. But coffee intake isn’t what drives the people who work to fill these...