When I think back to my last four years at URI, bad memories dominate the good ones. I’m reminded of circling the Fine Arts Center lot for a parking spot, walking uphill from Plains lot when I inevitably gave up on looking, waiting at shuttle stops as the buses drive right past me, writing dozens…
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille| Photo Editor Never in a million years would I have thought I’d be writing a goodbye column for a college newspaper, let alone be on the executive board of one. I’m not sure if I’m the first business manager of the Good Five Cent Cigar to be writing one of these,…
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor I honestly cannot believe that this day is here. This sounds cliche, but it really does feel like yesterday when I showed up for my first Cigar meeting back in 2019. I had known I wanted to join a bunch of journalism-related organizations back then, and in the…
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille| Photo Editor In my three and a half years as a student at URI, I have never known life without the Cigar. From the very first day of classes, the paper gave me an identity that I could be proud of in a time when I didn’t know who I was….
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille| Photo Editor Since September 2, 2019, my life has been dominated by one thing: the Good Five Cent Cigar. That was the first Cigar meeting I ever attended. It was only my second week at the University of Rhode Island, and though I would never have admitted it, I was lonely…
Photo contributed by: Christian Silvia | Staff Reporter I wrote my first article for the Cigar just before the pandemic started, it took weeks to edit since it was so poorly written. I often wonder what would have happened if I never nervously walked into the Cigar office midway through sophomore year and took those…
Photo contributed by: Siobhan Richards | Contributing Photographer If you had told me four years ago that I would be writing a goodbye letter to my college newspaper, I would have called you crazy. Looking back, I understand where she was coming from, but boy am I glad she changed her mind. Coming to URI,…
Photo contributed by: Melissa Marchese | Staff Photographer The Good Five Cent Cigar has been a key aspect of my college career for the past four years. Throughout those years I have, in a sense, been a jack of all trades. I have written articles, although there are very few of those. I have done…
Photo contributed by: Greg Clark | Staff Photographer I never intended on joining The Good Five Cent Cigar. During my fall semester freshman year, Kayla Michaud, who was the entertainment editor at the time, asked me to photograph the play that was about to open on campus. I had nothing better to do, so I…
Photo contributed by: Kayla Laguerre-Lewis | Entertainment Editor Emerita When I moved on from the position of entertainment editor at the end of last semester, the editors I had started with were all publishing their own goodbye columns. I decided to hold off until the very last minute, which is now. I did that for…