A Brief Year in Review

This isn’t the first time we’re choosing to forego a traditional staff editorial. But after this year—after a year of living through and reporting on the October 31 terrorist attack right outside our doors, of participating in a national walkout out in memory of the fallen students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, of running to Jupioca the day of its grand opening, of getting photos with Die Loches, of watching Real Madrid win its third consecutive Champions League and cheering on the girls’ swim team as they secured another city championship—it has become clear to us that our lives have become increasingly less about us as high school students and more about our lives as teenagers trying to figure out where we stand in this scary and empowering thing we call life. We hope that we have been able to capture the spirit of living in concentric global, local, and personal circles through our reporting this past semester (and through the timeline of the past year you’ll find running through this issue).