The Rotunda

Issue date: 4/8/09 Section: Opinion

Media Credit: Becky Hosler Lauren Boehnlein, Web Administrator.

32 days. Well, actually, its 31. That's it. We're in the double digits and the days are flying by. As soon as the days get warmer that's how it always works. That's the reason summer flies by…we have so much fun playing in the sun that before we know it, it's time for school to start. Now we are getting into those warm days and senior year is ticking down. As the weeks go by and things wind down, it leaves a bittersweet feeling in us all. It seems like as each week goes by, one by one, my activities end. While I am glad to be able to have more time to do work and sleep, I will miss the busyness and of course, the friends that I have made.

The friends that I have made over the last two years are what have made all my experiences at Longwood amazing. On this journey that we call life, we encounter many friends. Some of those people we become very close to and others that we keep at arm's length. Those friends who we become close with are the ones who shape us in to the people we will eventually grow up to be. I credit the amazing experience in my time at The Rotunda to the friends that I have made. Each and every person that we have on staff has shaped me and made me the person who will be walking across that stage on May 9th.

Two years ago, if someone would have asked me where I would be on April 8, 2009, I would never have imagined myself sitting where I am today. I am in the company of two of my very best friends as we put to bed a chapter of our lives. We have been through a lot, Tim, A.J. and I. And somehow, we have seen a newspaper come out every single week. Sure, we have spent countless hours in the hot, stuffy office and cursed at our alarm clocks when they go off at 8 a.m. Wednesday mornings but I know none of us would trade the experiences that we have had for the world.

Last year, as I sat and wrote my final editorial, I never could have imagined The Rotunda coming as far as it has come. One year ago, I had a dream for The Rotunda. While it took a lot of hard work and tears (and believe me, there were a lot of tears that went into this paper), I achieved my dream. We went online with The Rotunda on September 10th, 2008. Yes, there was a website that was the online version of the paper; however, it had not been updated since April 2007. Many alumni had contacted us throughout last year asking if we had a website that they could catch up on the latest news around the campus; however, we had to tell them that the only way to read the paper was to pick up a hard copy of it. My goal was to bring the paper into the twenty-first century and catch up with the rest of the world. Multimedia aspects of news media are no longer the wave of the future. It is the present. With the existence of The Rotunda Online and The Rotunda Show, our campus newspaper is finally able to keep up.

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