LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Outgoing Editor-in-Chief says goodbye
Those who say “goodbyes are not forever” obviously never had to say goodbye to a college experience. But some goodbyes are forever. When I pack up my desk at the end of the summer, I am saying goodbye to The Signal and I will never come back.
Not that I won’t visit the newsroom that felt like a home or that I won’t keep in touch with the people who made the newsroom a warm and welcoming place full of laughter and sugar skulls. But I will never be The Signal’s Editor-in-Chief again. It’s an odd feeling that I can’t make go away despite stress baking chocolate chip cookies or marathoning “Pretty Little Liars.”
Ever since I came back to UHCL for my Master’s, I wanted to be the editor-in-chief of The Signal. But now, after a little over a year of unprecedented times, I’m old, tired and burnt out. Turns out grad school is hard.
So, before I go into that gentle night of “holy crap what’s next,” I want to thank everyone in the newsroom who constantly made me laugh and who worked their asses off in pursuit of journalistic integrity. Miles, Jessica, Stephanie and Troylon, thank you for always being there and always taking every personality test I threw at you. I appreciate it more than you know.
To Lindsay, there’s no one else I would rather work alongside during a totally normal and not-at-all chaotic time. Between losing the Media Production class, a global pandemic, social justice and equity movements, Dear America, SGA summer town halls, an election, an insurrection, extreme weather events, sugar skulls and consistent UHCL administration shakeups, I don’t think we ever had a plan that lasted for more than 48 hours. This was a fun time.
But for real, thank you for always strongly advising that I don’t run away screaming into the abyss every time I had to reintroduce myself to people or when plans had to change on a dime.
And to Miles, as you become The Signal’s next editor-in-chief, I wish I could tell you that all of your dreams for The Signal will come true and that the UHCL leadership will answer all your emails in a timely fashion, but I can’t. So even though you are perfect for this position and that your leadership skills are unmatched, this job will put you through the wringer, but I know that you are the right person to steer this ship into daylight.
I know it’s my time to leave, and leave I shall. However, I know that whatever happens next, I’ll always look back on my time at The Signal with nostalgia’s ruby-quartz-colored glasses and smile. So, as the great poet Madonna Ciccone once wrote, “I’ll remember the love that you gave me, now that I’m standing on my own. I’ll remember the way that you changed me. I’ll remember.”
Sincerely,
Emily Nichelle Wolfe,
A Gryffindor, ESTJ, 3w4, Virgo sun, Virgo moon
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Signal
