Hey everyone! My name is Erika and I’m the editor of The Chapin Claw. Journalism 1 was the very first class that I took on my very first day of high school, and if you asked me then I never could have guessed how much I would grow to love the subject. I started as a scared, quiet little freshman with questionable taste in clothes, and now I’m a much more fashionable senior applying to colleges as a journalism major. I won’t bother to give you a laundry list of my achievements and extracurriculars because I know you really don’t want to hear it, but needless to say my life has been hectic and I’m ready to see how it all translates into the next chapter of my life. Now enough of the boring stuff; let me tell you a bit about me personally. I have crazy curly hair that is impossible to tame, a weird obsession with octopi, and some of the best friends ever. I’m a total klutz so naturally I’m balancing on the wall of the football stadium in my picture. I’m almost out of space, but I hope everyone else enjoys this year as much as I plan to!