When I signed up for Publications in 2019, I expected to help work on Edison's yearbook via taking photos and designing pages. For the greater part of that school year, that is exactly what happened. When COVID closed schools that March, nearly a third of the yearbook was left incomplete. Together with Mrs. Roan and help from our student body, we did our best to collect photos of distance-learning and continue documenting what life was like during the pandemic. During this time, for me, the yearbook clearly became not just a place for memories, but a true historical document. In the following years, when I returned as an editor, that changed the way I viewed my role in class. While my skills for editing, critical thinking and literary criticism developed during my years studying English and German Education while at university, I view Publications as a necessary foundation for this interest.
I see this role still being used in the following ways:
1. Attention to Print Media
While I do not personally subscribe to any physical newspaper outlets here in the Baltic, I often see the "Ostsee Zeitung" in stores or in people's hands on the train or in town. Germany also utilizes lots of poster advertisements even in small towns.
