So this has been quite a year school-wise, community-wise, and national news-wise. I might not witness something first-hand, but you know that adage, “Read all about it”? Yeah, that’s what I do. From our spirit events, fine art’s assemblies, sport’s victories, individual student triumphs, collective student complaints, and activities within every classroom, I’ve lived vicariously for every event, and that’s my favorite element of running TypeOne. I get to see everything going on in our school, and I must tell you, if you take a step back and read all about it, in every realm of our school possible- the class, the field, the stage – PC, as a collective community is fantastic.

TypeOne has seen its share of changes. We saw some tragedy as Farhaan’s section ceased to exist (believe me, there was no fun of any type that day), we suffered to find a slogan that could ever beat “we have issues,” we excruciatingly explained the death of print to everyone that asked, and we succumbed to the literal daggers that hit us every time someone said ‘What’s TypeOne… isn’t that diabetes?”

However, the paper saw multiple successes this year: we overcame the technical difficulties of the web, watched our readership hit over 800 views one night, convinced Mr. Clark that reading articles was so much better than going home early on Friday afternoons, enabled Louis to became a music snob/junkie, found a way to use our superb slogan “we have issues” any chance we got, persuaded our entire staff to meet and deliver articles weekly (every Thursday we got to school at 7:30 to brainstorm was a success in my book), and witnessed an increase of productivity, readership, and most importantly, quality, in our paper, covering everything happening at PC, locally, nationally, and even globally (as we soon learned from Brigitte). On April 30th, TypeOne won 1^st place for Best Web Dynamics at the Broward County High School Journalism awards – next year we’ll be back for more.

I watched these changes take place, manifest (and slightly take over) into a weekly way of life that I measured in increments of Thursdays- and I loved every minute of it (even the deadlines). I can’t thank the loyal staff more for showing up, putting up with the thirty or so emails I could send in a matter of a few days or hours, and always being so enthusiastic about what we do. Ms. J was more than just a sponsor- she actively worked on the website, read every article, and took every idea in stride. A formal apology to her 1^st period class- I’m sorry I always derailed the start of your Thursday lessons.

We’ve progressed so much and are still improving, such as pondering our existentiality and Frank’s distaste for… well, everything.   Our work seems to last an eternity when you measure it by the week, but I’ve had an amazing year of news and opinions.   I can’t wait to see what goes on next year, and as we face our last publication of the school year, I’m already missing TypeOne dearly- what can I say… it has a lot of issues.