As we write this, Prize Day approaches rapidly, the eerie prospect of being thrown into a bigger and broader world now a far more terrifyingly concrete reality. There will be no more rough and rowdy CV meetings, no more late nights spent watching Ross weep over InDesign, none of that exhausted pride felt as we carry three hundred copies of the newest issue to the Schoolhouse.

Though we’re parting ways with Room 051, we have the utmost confidence in next year’s staff. It is with complete faith that we hand the reigns off to Hadley and Jack.

Now back to us:

Last year, we launched at breakneck speed, left with a short nine days to pull together an entire issue in a process that typically takes three weeks. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. Somehow, we managed; it all came together at the last moment. That raging velocity, we realized, would characterize the rest of the year.

It’s been rewarding. We switched printers in the fall to improve the quality of the paper, and in the process learned about negotiating with professionals. We further modernized the layout design this year, and worked with our online staff and student programmers to boost our social media presence and to put out an app for the revamped website.

The 2015 to 2016 editorial board is a tight-knit bunch. And we have the countless midnight workdays to thank for that. It’s been an up and down ride, but all the stress and duress of the press has proved wonderfully and wildly memorable.

We’ll miss the pizza and cupcake munching, the quirky neuroticism of George after 10 PM, and the sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, but always consistent combination of whining and support offered by Zahin as he pored over his articles.

But most of all, we’ll miss working with the assistants and editors—the writing, the layout, the coordination, the Fifth and Sixth Formers that always delivered regardless of how hard we pushed. We are so thankful to have been able to collaborate with our staff, and we are so excited to see what’s in store for next year.

And so far the very last time,

Varsha and Ethan