If you were to ask me my freshman year if I would take the newspaper class I would have most likely said never. But all due to one person, that changed the next four years of high school. 

Lane Shaffer always tried to persuade me to join the newspaper class. 

I had already met SB through a linked learning class, which I’m very glad I took as it convinced me to join newspaper class. At the time I didn’t think much of it, just thought it was another class. But this newspaper class showed me a new community, and I’m very thankful for it. In the beginning of the class, I was scared as I didn’t really know anyone. But as the class went on, I slowly got to be a part of the community we created as a whole. This small classroom filled with all of us trying to get our work done on production nights are memories I won’t forget.

Thankfully my first year I had someone I could bounce back on for help if I struggled, that being Lincoln Wheeler. Lincoln Wheeler was editor-in-chief my junior year, and he was someone always fun to be around and could talk about anything for hours. He is a person you could talk to about anything no matter how serious or unserious it could be. Lincoln was what I would think the best role model on how to mix completing work in newspaper and balancing it with fun.

I would have never thought a class like this would leave an impact on my high school experience but I am ever so glad. I couldn’t imagine how I would be without newspaper, all the things I learned and ex