As an editor of three years and the Editor-in-Chief of two years, leadership is no joke to me. In my time at my school's paper, I've worked alongside three very different teams of editors, learning different lessons from each staff. My sophomore year, I began to familiarize myself with asserting my power as an editor. Although I was young, I knew how to edit, and I started to feel more confident in my abilities and make more suggestions on my older peers' articles. During junior year, I recognized how important it was to be mindful of how my edits came across. I have a tendency to take on a rude tone through Google Comments (our preferred way of editing in addition to old-school paper copies), so I made the conscious adjustment to include tone indications, emojis, and found other ways to communicate my true feelings through comments. I also went an extra step if I knew a writer was particularly sensitive to criticism and followed up on edits in person to explain why I made each edit. This year, I've really grown in my creative endeavors, most notably through my redesign of the paper. I've also gotten better at delegating certain tasks to fellow editors so I don't take on so much of the workload and burn myself out. Below is an example of the types of memos I send out after publishing our printed paper (which signifies the end of a news cycle in our newsroom). I've also redesigned a style sheet/ manual of sorts to ensure that even after I leave, writers will still have references to follow if the next EIC chooses the same style I have.