Why yearbooks matter

Every year it is one of the biggest days for the yearbook staff and the students that ordered yearbooks.  The process is very tedious. I am on the yearbook staff at my school and this how the process goes.

We spend an entire year. Not just an hour a day in class but taking photo’s almost every night at sports activities and fine art performances not to mention during day when there are academic assemblies.  It takes a lot of time just getting the pictures and captions and designs done. The end product is worth the yearlong stress. In order to make a yearbook great you have to capture as much of the year as possible, this can very hard at times when there is a swim meet, volleyball match, and a football game all going on in one night. As a yearbook staff we have to decide what to cover, when to cover it, and how to cover it. We want it be unique to prior years and different from other schools so the brainstorming process is very gruesome.

After a year of page designing, photo gathering, interview upwards of 100 people, we can finally say WE ARE DONE! That is the best part. You may think once the school year is over we are done. You’re thinking wrong. We have to spend long summer days glued to the computer finishing up last minute things, fixing spreads, and proofreading everything over and over.  Once the yearbook is finally done and we all celebrate, it is such a good feeling.

Distribution day it’s my favorite day of the year.  When the students finally get to see what the staff had worked so hard on all year long. The reactions are amazing, there are always those people that judge and make a point for every error we made. I don’t let that bother me because I know they don’t understand how hard the process of the making a yearbook is. Besides most of the people don’t care because over all it is still really great. That is why I do yearbook, how happy people are that they are in it and how excited they are to see it.

The yearbook is important because it really is something students treasure for years and years. In 20 years when you a friend request from so and so and you are thinking “man, I know who this person where do I know them from?” the first thing you are going to do is go look them up in a school yearbook. Or in 10 years and you are getting ready for your high school reunion you will want to go look at old yearbooks to remember everyone. If you haven’t considered buying a yearbook you really should! Or at least for your senior year. Isn’t that something you want to remember?

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