Mairead Poulin ’13 is the current Editor-in-Chief of The Willistonian. She likes coffee, Italian Greyhounds, the occasional thunderstorm, and speaking her mind. Her column, From The Editor’s Desk, is published weekly.
When I was little, I was a pathological liar. I have distinct memories of creating the most outlandish, completely impossible stories, and sharing them with the adults in my family (who surely must have known that I was telling tall tales). I attribute this unattractive hobby to my love for telling stories. And once I graduated to scribbling, and later typing, out my stories (instead of passing them off as the truth), I formed a distinct definition of writing: the sharing of the details of a story in a way that made people want to read it. I figured that this made me a lover of “creative writing” – someone who specializes in fiction. But when I came to Williston as a freshman, I realized that my love for telling stories could translate into another form of writing: student journalism.