{"id":8857,"date":"2026-04-14T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:22:41","slug":"farewell-to-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8857","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

While my time with the Brackety-Ack and Roanoke College is coming to a close, I am overjoyed that I got to spend these past four years surrounded by all of y\u2019all.\u00a0 This college\u2019s marketing team hit the nail on the head when they sent a postcard telling of this campus\u2019s ability to build community, and that was when I was a rising senior in high school.\u00a0 I am so glad that that little piece of paper with the classic birds-eye view of campus was enough to get me to tour and eventually apply to this school and no others.\u00a0 While this school has taken actions over the past four years that have undermined many of the reasons that convinced me to attend, I want to keep this positive.\u00a0 Through it all, the college\u2019s promise of community rings true.\u00a0 This campus builds community in so many wonderful ways, from the dozens of clubs bringing people together every week to the CAB events that live on as trinkets or tokens kept in my memory box.\u00a0 In addition to starting your own club, there are many avenues for creating your own community here, which could take the form of writing \u201cmulch\u201d on most every chalkboard you find, though I may have done that already.\u00a0 Whatever you define as a community worth keeping, I encourage you to go out of your way to create it.\u00a0 If you are already in one, I implore you to feed it life whenever you can, because the day when you\u2019re forced to leave or dramatically alter your relationship with it will sneak up on you like a semi-truck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not easy to put into words the wave of emotions that overcame me as I drove back onto campus this past Sunday, after spending Easter Weekend at home.\u00a0 During that drive, with every new ridge that came into view, a single phrase kept bubbling up: I\u2019m going home.\u00a0 The Brackety-Ack, Roanoke College, Salem, and the whole Roanoke area are all places that bring a myriad of memories and flashes of the future.\u00a0 The Brackety-Ack\u2019s place resides in the Garrett Media Lounge, where I usually meet the Folks of \u2018Noke for interviews and where the other editors and I edit and design our respective sections.\u00a0 It has been a joy to work with my fellow editors when time permitted, and I would be lying if I didn\u2019t say that I got emotional doing my final layout two weeks ago.\u00a0 Having been a Brackety-Ack staff since before starting classes and serving as Folks At \u2018Noke section editor since the spring of my freshman year, this stretch of the semester has been incredibly bittersweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As y\u2019all look forward to the years ahead, I recommend focusing on the aspects of place in your life.\u00a0 In terms of literal locations, where do you feel the safest?\u00a0 The calmest?\u00a0 Where do you feel the most alive?\u00a0 The most connected?\u00a0 Where do you feel the most at home?\u00a0 These are the questions I ask myself when I consider what home means to me, so I hope y\u2019all get the chance to take a moment out of your day and sit with those questions.\u00a0 Though the chapters of your life may splinter and hurriedly start anew, there is always a place where you feel the most you.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Juniper Rogers
\nFormer Folk of ‘Noke Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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