Like every year that has ever happened, 2016 was a big one, filled with notable events, small victories, plenty of insects in unappealing places, etc. Before we march forth into 2017, here’s one last look at the year that was by way of each Nexus staffer’s list of their top five favourite things of 2016, as well as an added bonus: one thing that they don’t want to see this year.
Adam Boyle, staff writer
1. Taking on my first feature story for Nexus
2. Managing to, somehow, never get a parking ticket
3. Travelling outside of North America for the first time
4. Only breaking my phone once
5. Turkey sandwiches at the cafeteria
Something I don’t want to see in 2017:
The total collapse of the United States of America
Mason Hendricks, web editor
1. Relaxing in the sun at Gonzales Beach
2. Dancing to ’90s music at Lucky Bar
3. Hiking Alpine mountain ranges
4. Harambe
5. Writing for Nexus
Something I don’t want to see in 2017:
More amazing artists dying
Quinn Hiebert, features writer
1. Some of my plants aren’t dead yet
2. Camosun’s librarians
3. Cat-ear headphones that light up blue
4. Tomb Raider’s GOTY Edition
5. The table in the library that had puzzles and cat colouring books; one was cats in hats
Something I don’t want to see in 2017:
Trump, but it’s too late for that
Adam Marsh, student editor
1. The chatty cashier guy in the cafeteria wearing gym shorts on a freezing cold December morning
2. Squashing earwigs with managing editor Greg Pratt
3. Benedict Cumberbatch’s mad libs on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
4. Watching the maintenance crew feed the turtles in Fisher
5. Greg’s badass metal suggestions to get us through deadline day
Something I don’t want to see in 2017:
The college spending a fortune on presidents, yet leaving the Young building hanging (literally, in some cases).
Greg Pratt, managing editor
1. Nexus totally killing it, issue after issue; great work, team!
2. First BMX-ramp jumps and separating ideas into paragraphs: being a proud dad
3. Seeing a movie I wrote on the big screen at the Roxy
4. Propagandhi’s triumphant return to Victoria
5. Me not being kidnapped by a cult
Something I don’t want to see in 2017:
Me being kidnapped by a cult