This was also a big year for me in Journalism class. The ball landed a little low and temporarily injured my Co-Editor in Chief.įreshman year, what many refer to as the ‘COVID year,’ was a blur, although I do very vividly remember spending countless minutes observing sidewalk chalk art during ‘Puzzle Time’ with Melisa Williams, US Math. 8th grade me was very naive.Įarly into senior year, I threw a tennis ball to Marshall Lehman ’24. For the next four years, I assumed I would simply write stories, publish them, and call it a day. Anyways, I did not tell Wallace nor anybody else the real reason for wanting to switch. Maybe this is just a me problem, but I challenge everyone to go back and read one of their emails from middle school, because rereading that email, I was repulsed by my wording. I proceeded to email Lisa Wallace, the Student Media teacher, that I wanted to switch out of Yearbook and “give up my spot to another person.” That’s directly from an email I sent to Wallace in 8th grade. I was good friends with Marshall, still am, so I figured I might enjoy a class with a friend of mine more than one without. Then I looked at the roster for journalism class and I saw Marshall Lehman’s ’24 name on it. They were all nice people, but I wasn’t close friends with any of them and didn’t know many of the upperclassmen that well either. I looked at the names of the other freshmen selected for the yearbook staff and started to grow hesitant of my choice. A few days later, the rosters for each student media class were shared. The narcissistic side of me also believed that I could sneak in more pictures of myself into the yearbook. Receiving a yearbook was always a fun way to end each school year, so I thought it might be cool to help create future yearbooks (and to prevent any future pictures of George Watler ’24 in 6th grade PE being captioned under my name despite my involvement in ballet). Sitting on my bedroom floor while the world was devolving around me, I selected Yearbook as my number one choice with Journalism second. So then I had to fill out a Google Form where I had to answer questions about my skill sets, what ideas I had to improve FWCD Student Media, and rank which student media class I wanted to take. Since I had never done orchestra or choir before, theater and art weren’t really my passion, and band and drumline were ruined for me in seventh grade, I selected Student Media. It was no longer just a choice between art, theater, band, drumline, orchestra, and choir, but now a choice between certain areas of study within these broader categories. Sure, in seventh and eighth grade, we, the students, had some freedom to choose our ‘fine arts’ classes, but we had even more choices in Upper School. Heading into freshman year, I got the first taste of choosing a class.

Yet here I am considering a career in Sports Broadcasting so exactly how did I get here? My interview with Andrew Edwards ’24 after his stellar performance in FWCD’s 52-13 versus Oakridge. Four years ago I never would have imagined myself doing anything remotely similar to this. That got me thinking about all of the interviews I had done throughout the first semester of my senior year my first ever pre-game interviews with Wyeth Smith ’26 and Nate Blan ’26 before their volleyball game against Greenhill, the interview with Chloe Nelson ’27 after she broke a school record at the Southwest Christian cross country meet, the five-person interview after the field hockey team dominated Highland Park 6-0, the sideline interviews with the cheerleaders before the Homecoming Football Game, and of course the four rapid-fire interviews after the football team decimated Oakridge 52-13 on the same night. Originally, I was concerned that I had forgotten for the seventh-day in a row to upload photos to the Google Drive folder since I had not gotten any b-roll footage at any of the games. So in a notes-heavy Financial Math class, I started thinking about how the video with my pre and post game interviews were coming along, since the Falcon Quill Video class takes place at the same time as my Financial Math class. That also means when I try to do any type of work in class or at home, I zone out and start thinking about what feels like a thousand different things running through my mind. At the time of writing this, midterms are approaching, so I have been finding every way possible to not prepare for said tests.

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