This will be a bittersweet article for me to write. This is my final article for Pipe Dream, as I will be graduating from this storied institution in less than a week.

I have seen a lot in my two years writing for this publication, and I have been privileged enough to witness history while serving on the Pipe Dream staff.

I saw the school crown its first NCAA champion in pole vaulter Rory Quiller. I also saw, while sitting courtside (yes, being an editor has its perks), the men’s basketball team cap off an incredible season with an America East championship win before heading to North Carolina for an appearance in the NCAA tournament. In addition, I saw wrestler Josh Patterson become Binghamton University’s first Division I All-American when he placed seventh at the NCAA tourney.

It has been an honor to represent this University as a student journalist and I have taken a lot away from my time working in the bowels of the New University Union here in WB03. I can say with absolute sincerity that my patience, tolerance and understanding have all grown by leaps and bounds, having spent a great deal of time in this office. My sleep schedule has been severely affected by my commitment to this publication, but hey, that’s part of the job.

The people in this office become like family to a person. I will miss them all. However, I will also miss the Binghamton sports family that I have grown to love as well. I will no longer be able to look over at the BU Zoo, or the Hooligans at games, and just chuckle to myself that they can throw off a team’s momentum simply by the sheer voracity of their cheering.

Last year, one of the outgoing editors told you, the reader, to bear with the incoming sports staff, as we were a team new to the editing game, and that it would take us some time to get things on track. Personally, I think we did the best job that we could, and I hope that you all enjoyed reading our work as much as we enjoyed writing it. Next year’s sports staff is talented and knowledgeable, and they will do as good a job, if not better, than my co-workers and I did this year.

So for the final time, The Haastile Bottom Line is: GO BEARCATS!