Media Credit: Lindsay Paulen | Staff Photographer Each year, graduating editors are given 30 final column inches – “30” was historically used to signify the end of a story – to reflect on their time at The Hatchet, published in the final issues of the year. I came to GW shy and awkward but eager and ready to learn. I didn’t know where I would fit in but knew I wanted to join the student newspaper. I don’t remember how it came to be, but I ended up in that musty townhouse basement during one of the first weeks of my freshman year for a photo meeting. As the year passed, I attended more meetings, usually sitting on the floor next to Arielle Bader, and took more and more assignments. I’m sure I was awkward, and I remember being a little scared of the older staff members, especially the ever so elusive Olivia Anderson. I remember being annoyed once because she asked me to redo a very simple assignment that I had messed up. It wasn’t until I worked with her later that I came to understand everything she did was because she cared so much about the paper and making sure we put out the best possible content.