“All good things [the Budget edited Lily, Abby, Mallory, Yu Kyung, Mara, Ella] must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever!” Thorton Wilder said.
After three years of writing for The Budget, we should know to refrain from starting a story with a quote. And exclamation points should really only be used when the statement is said so loud that ears start bleeding. But as this is our farewell letter, and we have free rein, we thought we’d take this chance to do what we would never allow The Budget staff to do.

“Yay!” said the editors. (Really, it should be: “the editors said.” Take note, future Budget staff members).

There are many things that we have to be excited about other than being able to defy journalism rules, like having finished thirty-two issues of the Budget (numbers greater than 10 should be in numerals btw), being named an All American publication, being better than Freestate (Free State is two words!), and being able to call Mrs. Tholen “Barbie” before 10 p.m. (Finally — an oxford comma!)
We are proud to say we had a good thing going, and we are very thankful that we had an advisor who was willing to stay past 11 on Friday nights. (Yes, we know that advisor should be spelled with an -e. This is just for Barb).

But alas, our time as the editors for The Budget has to come to an end as Mr. Wilder had said, (we are not supposed to use courtesy titles because we are neither British nor writers for the New York Times, but we can dream, right?) we can only hope that our departure marks the end of something good and a start of something better.

To the future Budget staff: don’t be afraid to ask a lot of questions in search of one good answer, double check all the check even if you know the people, memorize the AP style guide by heart, and listen to Tholen — remember, mommy knows best.