Wavelength staff posing for a group photo in front of a forest path. Kaeson Warnes//Wavelength
Dear Wavelength readers,
In my life the one thing I have never learned how to master is a good goodbye. I cry and become overwhelmed with love and anger that I must say goodbye, and frankly, it is just not something I would wish anyone to see. Even goodbyes that I know are short I hate, as I walk away, I feel upset that even for a brief time I must be without the people I love. So, it is hard to have to say goodbye for the summer to all of you…
Next year in the fall you may notice some changes…. We will have three new staff members! We are so excited to meet them and for everything they will do!! But this does mean that we are saying goodbye to three of our staff members. Tim, Abbey, and Kaeson are graduating! And while we are proud beyond belief at them for completing their degrees and moving to the next stop of their journeys, we are also currently thinking of ways to sabotage their classes and stop them from leaving us to get them to stay another year.
To Abbey, Tim, and Kaeson; we will miss you so much. We will miss everything you bring to the office and the staff. Abbey and Tim have been a part of Wavelength since its start and have been a vital part of the office. Abbey. As you stand on the threshold of this new chapter, your journey to this moment has been a testament to your unwavering dedication and the hard work that you have put so much work into Wavelength. We all see this. However, it is your infectious humor and genuine kindness that truly made you so wonderful to work with, also your love of Jason Segel. Tim. I will miss you stealing my songs of the week, but also your ideas, and reading your stories. Your articles always felt like a story that I was eagerly waiting for a sequel of! I am nothing less than absolute that you will do amazing things in Boston. The only thing I hope you don’t do is a Boston accent, please do not attempt to gain one! And lastly Kaeson. We are sad to see you go. Even though you have only been on staff for one year, you have made a mark on all of us; creating amazing projects and capturing beauty that others were not able to see! I wish luck to all of you and cannot wait to hear about what it is like out in the world! Easily one of my favorite things about working at Wavelength is the people who I have had the pleasure to work with who have also become some of my closest friends.
Wavelength staff posing for a group photo on a picnic blanket, looking like a family, all laughing. Kaeson Warnes//Wavelength
If you have been following along this year, we have done a lot of things (we are exhausted). We ate tons of weird food from the dining hall (never forget the time we were compared to Paul brothers), we drank coffee from literally every coffee shop on campus and around Bellingham, we talked to y’all about anything and everything. Abbey talked sh*t for the last time, chatted about grief, and learned about all the humans at WWU. Tim met some couples and learned about their love stories, read a bunch of books and told you about them, and listened to some local folk artists. Kaeson showed y’all our rooms, took photos of anyone who would come to talk to us at style spotlight, and talked about basic needs for students in Bellingham. Shayna gave us some ‘how tos’, like how to fix your car and how to get an internship, showed us pets of Bellingham, and gave us some tips on how to be our most authentic self! Lily gave us lots of tips for the quarter, wrote the new annual winter newsletter, and forced the staff to do a bunch of silly videos (they love them, I know it)! There were some things we wanted to do, but didn’t get around to (no one mentione the Outback Farm to Tim), but that’s okay because this isn’t the end. We will be back next year to bring you more!!
Wavelength staff candidly looking at the camera, in a group photo. Kaeson Warnes//Wavelength
When I first saw a video from Wavelength, I thought that it was so fun and exciting to see something that was new, and I really wanted to be a part of it! Upon meeting Abbey and Shayna, I was freaking out inside my head, and then as soon as the meeting started, Abbey declared “we are all very weird!!” I felt immediately calm and ready to start creating unique things that would hopefully excite people like the projects Abbey, Tim, Shayna, Sophia, and Nina started out making. Wavelength has given all of us an opportunity to create unique media that has become a passion for the staff. Something you may not know is that even though Wavelength is all over the internet, most of the staff are not as chronically online as you’d think. I think this is what makes everything we make so special because we take in everything around us and turn it into amazing projects.
Wavelength is grateful for every single person, and for letting us create projects for YOU. Without the people who listen, read, and watch all the things we do we would have no purpose; we create for the students at Western. We want to represent and show parts of the student body who may not be highlighted as often, and we attempt that by listening to y’all and trying our absolute hardest to make everything we hear, something you want to see.
To finish this up while I was writing this, I was listening to “Lost In My Mind” by the Head and the Heart, and the first verse of the song made me think about the feeling of leaving and how it feels to know you won’t see someone for awhile. The lyric “put your dreams away for now I won’t see you for some time,” requests us to take a moment and spend time with the people who you love that you won’t see as often anymore. It really spoke to me as this is what I’m feeling lately. We will miss all of you over the summer, but when we return, we will be missing some of the people who have made Wavelength so special. So for now, we hope to spend this last moment together enjoying this time we have till we must part! We will see you all in the fall! Hope each and every one of your summers are crazy amazing!!
Love,
Wavelength
(P.S. This is Lily. Hi!)
Wavelength Staff at Style Spotlight Spring Quarter 2024 edition. Kaeson Warnes//Wavelength