As I finish my tenure as the Editor-in-Chief of the Innis Herald, I feel a sort of selfishness as the idea of looking back at this year. I don’t pretend to be the best Editor-in-Chief we’ve had, nor the most hardworking or even most talented. Volunteering time and gruelling hours towards a project which I feel is never quite perfect—let alone complete—all the while juggling other extracurriculars, and, of course, actual school work… Well, it’s not exactly something that sounds appealing when I write it out, let’s put it that way.

Yet I can’t help but be drawn back in regardless. I think there’s something about working at such a small paper within such a small community which breeds intense emotions and, even more so, devotion. The idea of student leadership is tossed around in a multitude of contexts, but to me it is in the faces you see on weekends and late nights or the names that crop up in every other conversation. Innis is, more than anything, a college of student leaders—for better or for worse.

In the end, I truly cannot be more grateful for the experience of serving as your Editor-in-Chief. Though I am left feeling that my work is still unfinished, I know that I am leaving the paper in the more than capable hands of James Chapman, and that the Herald will continue on as strong as ever. At the very least, one thing that I can absolutely be sure of is that I could not have done anything without our fantastic masthead of Daria Mancino, Ilya Bañares, Bhavishya Barbhaya, and Sarah Laudenbach. To pretend that this was a one-person job is doing a disservice to them just as much as it would be untrue.

As your Editor-in-Chief, I sought to amplify the voices of Innis students and bring the Innis student body together, and I know that the Herald will continue to grow alongside Innis well into the future.