Lucas Gebhart
Editor-in-Chief
Thumbs up: Daylight savings
Falling back is great. Springing forward kinda sucks. But last week, we fell back an hour and even though we only gained one hour, it felt like we gained five. All day Sunday and most of Monday, I looked up at the clock and my heart sank when I saw the time. But then, I realized it was an hour later than it actually was, and my day instantly turned around.
Thumbs up: McDonald’s is open
A few months ago, this place was a pile of dirt, literally. Now, the McDonald’s across the street from campus is back and ISU students have been gifted all the beauty that goes along with it. Where else can you get 20 chicken nuggets for five bucks that’s walking distance from campus?
Thumbs up: Thanksgiving break
How nice is getting an entire week off? The best part, in my opinion, is coming back from break and only having a few weeks to go in the semester. We only have two and a half weeks of classes left with a weeklong break in the middle of it. That is luxury right there.
Thumbs down: Jim Acosta’s situation
This is a joke. Acosta, a CNN reporter, had his hard pass to the White House suspended last week after a confrontation with President Trump during a press conference. Basically, Acosta challenged the president on a statement he made earlier, which is his job, and the president refused to answer it. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later tweeted, “We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern…” The best part is she then tweeted out a doctrine video to prove her “point.” This is an absolute joke and it’s an embarrassment to the White House, Huckabee Sanders, President Trump, the White House intern and the entire country.
Thumbs down: Pocatello winds
It is always windy in Pocatello and these winds go through everything. No matter how many layers you have on, the Poky winds find a hole. I might as well walk to class in a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops.
Thumbs down: Not having credit
If you don’t have credit yet, you should probably get some as soon as possible before it comes back to bite you. I applied for a house last week and experience taught me a lesson that I have been told for about five years now, “some credit is better than no credit.” I had to get my dad to co-sign on the lease with me and the company that was doing a background check didn’t have enough information on me to build a profile. I had to send this company a photo of my driver’s license and a bank statement via e-mail – super safe, I know. After fighting with this company for about a day over cyber security, I finally realized that I either send them this info or I don’t get the house. All of that could have been avoided if I had credit.
