From the reporter

When I first joined yearbook, I didn’t care much about the writing. I thought, “No one’s going to read it anyway,” so I focused on making the pages look good. But while flipping through my cousins’ old yearbooks, I saw a photo of my cousin and wondered, What’s happening here? Then I read the caption: “Swim captain Nicholas Hsu ’21 maintains his pace during the first swim practice of the year.”

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That one sentence made me realize how much a caption can do. It answers questions, preserves memories, and gives photos meaning. As a designer at heart, I’ll always notice the visuals first. But now, I take the time to read every caption carefully. Years from now, someone will read those words and remember exactly what they were doing. That kind of recognition matters to me.