Priya Bali
Daily Arts Writer
Goodbye to 420 Maynard -- where, in a sea of loud, passionate voices, I found my own. Thank you to the people who showed me how to communicate mine just as expressively, and to the readers, who cared enough to listen to it.

Jeremy Cho
Senior Photo Editor
I just want to say thanks to all the people I've met, interacted, and worked with at the Daily. You've made my experience here exceed all expectations. It's been a privilege being a part of something amazing.

Rodrigo Gaya
Managing Photo Editor
I'd like to send all my love and gratitude to all of the following people who have either influenced me or guided me to become the person/photographer I am today:

Dios, Ma, Pa, Xavi, Tesh, Juanpi, Lita, los Villar, los Gaya, Mau, the Key Crew, Father Liam, Mr Linfors, 420 Maynard, T-Dingger, F-Dog, Weiner, Tuman, Tommaso, The Bus, Dziadosz, Emma, Petrobas, Angie, JeyCho, my staffers, Andrew GrossfaceSquarePants, Big Worm, Emery, Passface, Gabeface, Feldman, Ian, Johnny Lowe, Katz, Herring, the Newsies, Polar Bear, Scott B, the Puerto Ricans, the Indians, the Explorers, the Michiganders, Futbolitis FC, FCBarcelona, and everyone else (you know who you are)...

Y gracias pinche Daily por todo lo que me has dado y quitado. I am eternally grateful for everything and everyone. Call me if you need anything.

Com/Amb amor.

Kimberly Chou
Daily Arts Writer
A million thanks to "the old Daily," for making me the writer that I thought I was, and for remaining the people that I miss most -- and to Caroline, who gets it. Thanks, too, to those I love in the new Daily: I'll leave a pitcher of mojito and an NPR tote-bag on my way out.

Abigail Colodner
Daily Arts Writer
There are limited ways to end up inside a bell in the clocktower at midnight talking to a man in a formal suit about shipwrecks and still write home about it. The Daily is one.

"Liberal arts education" equals finding what you love accidentally. I wanted to find madcap satisfaction in academics, but I found it at the Daily. And in fact, I owe most of what I know about our school to the work I do for the Daily. I've interviewed department heads, fellows, artists from any/everywhere -- and students, most importantly. Yeah, I meet PAT majors as parties, but the crime is I never rush through their hallways, let alone their campus -- except when I'm writing for the Daily.

Studying abroad showed me the freedom in owning your tourist status. That§s what the Daily allows me to do here -- use what I don§t know to my best advantage, ask incessant questions -- because learning, not complacency, is my job.

Ann Arbor worked into my heart through its performances. The column I had the privilege to write for three semesters was both terrifying and incomparably gratifying. The Fine Arts writers could make me weep with gratitude. I know it's the most challenging Arts section, and some of these writers have committed beyond what I could have asked.

Adrenaline-driven marathon reads with you fueled me and help me understand what makes such committments worthwhile. I bubble over about you -- Priya, Maureen, Ben Vdubs, Katie, Whitney, Michele, Catherine Smyka, indelible Andrew Klein.

Editors from Arts and every other section, you chose reponsibility and time and it's been formative working with you. Some of the busiest people on campus can also give the most sober, generous attention. My deep respect and thanks to them and to everyone who reads Arts.

It would have been a poorer four years without this. Thank goodness I know.

Matt Emery
Daily Arts Editor
There are a lot of good people at this paper. Write for Daily Arts. Take a chance with Daily Arts. Hate Daily Arts. Love Daily Arts. Write more for Daily Arts. Get shoved into something you're not prepared for. Become an editor. Love your job. Love the people you work with. Love what you're forced into. Love the job you have. Know you're the person for the job. Finish the job. Love the job. Try to say goodbye. For God's sake, try to say goodbye. Miss the paper you love so much. Goodbye, everyone. Goodbye.

Dan Feldman
Senior Sports Editor
I'll still be writing next semester, but these goodbyes are published now.