LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

LOST JOURNAL ENTRY FROM THE EDITOR

I’m at my wits end. My last stand in the Great Plains. This is my last note as editor in chief before I graduate and enter the great unknown that is not college. I’m terrified! What will I do without having to go to a multitude of classes I don’t care about? Imagine all the free time I’ll have without the ever looming presence of due assignments, absolutely harrowing!

It’s been an interesting experience, inheriting the magazine and having to rebuild the physical presence of it after quarantine. I set out to have a major focus on art and student experiences and I think it’s at a healthy starting point now to become something meaningful and greater under the next editor in chief, Jensen Puckett, who has served as our managing editor for the past three semesters.

Who knows what the future holds for 22 West Magazine and this campus, I certainly don’t. I hope whoever finds this enjoys the Wild West issue, because we’re riding far into the horizon into places never gone before. Industry, smothering of the old ways and despair. When this issue theme was conceived, I pictured something more light-hearted and funny. We have the opposite of that. Let’s ride!

ANDRES LEON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF