Reese Felt
It’s crazy to think that it’s already the end of the school year when all the big senior changes are happening. I remember at the beginning of high school everybody said that in the blink of an eye high school will be over before you know it, and believe it or not they were right. It goes without saying that these past four years have flown by, and I haven’t yet realized that high school’s almost over.
Coming to Costa my junior year, I only knew people from years of AYSO and some old friends from preschool. My counselor asked what elective classes I wanted to take my second semester, and the only available class was Intro to Journalism. I heard it was easy, and the first day walking into the class we were doing an album review, and I knew that I found the perfect class for me.
Since then, my two years at La Vista have been a rollercoaster of emotions. I started out as an Intro to Journalism student that knew absolutely nothing about journalism, and before taking the class I had no idea the school paper even existed. My junior year consisted of sitting in the back of the classroom taking notes, watching movies, and just trying to get by without being yelled at by Mac for being off task.
That year, I got my grade back on the first story that I had ever written with a fat D written on the top with my paper covered in red pen. After getting that back, I immediately shut down and thought my life was over. There was no way I wrote a story that bad to deserve that low of a grade.
One morning, I walked into the classroom with Mac telling everyone that we would be going to Amigo’s at the end of the week. I couldn’t believe that this was something a class was able to do. When we walked out of school and got burritos, I knew that this would be something we would be doing at least once a semester.
By the end of the year, the EICs were talking about positions opening up for the next year’s staff, which seemed very stressful and something I wanted to keep my distance from. Mac came up to Alana Frank and me during the intro class and said that he was looking for some new Photo editors to help rebuild the La Vista website. The idea sounded cool, and before I knew it I was a senior introducing myself to the intro kids as the executive photo editor.
I’ll never forget my senior year in La Vista as here is where I have made most of my memories and had such a fun time with the editors. Becoming an editor really opened my eyes to such a great group of people who I now call my good friends.
Now that I’m setting sail into my future in the Navy, I’ll never forget all the laughs, gossip sessions, and complete and utter craziness that occurred in the back of the room. I can recall so many memories from the editors creating a tally list of how many absences I had accumulated. To say the least, my fourth cousin from my long-lost aunt was always in town coming to visit me (really I was just absent). Production week was my favorite time of the month as I was a photo editor, so my job ended pretty quickly. I had so much fun dancing and doing handstands in the back room while the editors were all stressing over getting pages turned into the EICs and Mac.
Thank you, La Vista; it’s been a good one!
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