When people graduate from high school they tend to not come back. For 2006 WS graduate and Oracle Editor Liz Weiderhold, it’s a little different.

Weiderhold is returning after seven years to be a long term substitute English teacher here at WS. To her, time has changed a lot around here.

“When I was in high school, virtually no one used cell phones. Now cell phones are everywhere. I remember my best friend had 50 minutes a month that she shared with her older brother on that infamous Nokia brick phone. Even back then that was terrible…and hilarious,” She said. Weiderhold has been having her own adventures while she was off at George Mason getting her BA in Biology, later moving on to Oxford University for both a critical writing and Jane Austen courses.

“Most importantly, while attending Oxford I ate in the Great Hall from the Harry Potter films,” she said. Currently she is working toward getting her Masters in Secondary Education concentrating on English back at George Mason, hoping to graduate in December 2014 and later become a teacher.

As mentioned previously, Weiderhold is a formal Oracle Editor. For students who are unfamiliar with working as a newspaper editor, a job like this isn’t easy. Weiderhold recalls, “The hardest part of being an editor was shouldering the responsibility of a student-run newspaper. Since the newspaper is circulated to a couple thousand people, trying to make it relevant to our audience and maintain the high quality and standards that Mrs. Nelson stresses added astronomical pressure to me. I loved that the newspaper mattered to the real world.”

Weiderhold would best be known for her Letter to the Editor articles, and more specifically from a then senior football player Desmond Brazil. The two sent letters to each other through Weiderhold’s Letter to the Editor section many times, she called this exchange the “Dear Desmond Series”

Weiderhold does offer us all some advice based off of her time here at WS, as well as Oracle staff.

“Don’t take everything too seriously. I was your classic over-achiever in high school and I’ve come to regret not calming down a bit to really appreciate the fun that I didn’t realize I was having. Find your strength and master it.” She continues by saying,

“Get to know people—all kinds of people. Work on enhancing your world-view just as much as your grades. And, most importantly, as a collective demographic—STOP LISTENING TO JUSTIN BIEBER.”