School's Out for Summer

Introduction from the Editor, Designer & Founder of The Middlesex Echo. A farewell message to the year gone, and a promise of things to come.

Summer is almost here, and I have really begun to feel it. I’m not sure if it’s the warm air, the green that’s reappearing all around me, or the fact that deadlines and exams are all done and dusted for the year; but there’s definitely a sense of freedom in the air!

Unfortunately though, with summer comes the end to a publishing year. That means this will be the last printed issue of The Middlesex Echo until we return in September for the next academic year.

During the process of creating this issue, I was elected as Editor of The Middlesex Echo. This is the first time the role has been filled in this way, and it fills me with great pride and honour that the members of POW! Media would choose me to lead them for another year.

It is then with a retrospective air that I reflect on my past year with the Echo, and hope that the future can bring me similar delights and accomplishments.

The journey has been tough, but amazingly rewarding. It’s hard to believe it was two years ago now when I was a squeaky young Fresher, so excited to get involved in POW! Media and write for my University. I have come leaps and bounds from that point, and I know I could not have done it anywhere else except for here – at Middlesex University.

Only at Middlesex could I have been presented the opportunity so early to be Head of Magazine. Only at Middlesex could I have been given the chance to create my own newspaper! There is a certain beauty in crafting something yourself, in building it from the ground and making it an actual product. There is an amazing satisfaction and gratification in it, and I could not have accomplished this any whereelse.

To my team, I would like to say a massive thank you – for always pushing me to learn more, and for working with me every step of the way to build this. I could not have achieved anything without the inspiration and drive you provided me with.

To the Students’ Union Officers who have worked alongside me, I will forever be in your debt. You have challenged and pushed me, guided and educated me, and always believed in me. Thank you.

My aim this year was to bring journalism to Middlesex University,to provide a source of information for students on campus, and a way of every students’ voice being heard. I feel I have begun this process, and I hope that The Middlesex Echo continues to strive by this motto.