Positives

Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells…oh wait nevermind that’s the construction. As much as I hate the sound, I am thrilled to see stuff getting built. It may just be the engineer in me, but there’s nothing quite as cool as seeing a new building going up, and just think of all the possibilities once they’re done.

Remember to thank your resident assistants this semester. I’m not sure all of you realize just how much work they put into doing events for you guys and how amazing badass they tend to be. With that, just a notice: freshmen, you’re not nearly as sneaky as you think you are when coming back in on a Thursday night.

Thanksgiving break is coming! I don’t know about all of you, but I am looking forward to our break, I’ve had a little much of the schoolwork for awhile and really need the break, and hell there’s nothing like a good home cooked meal.

Negatives

Thanksgiving is not Christmas part one! I’m sick and tired of, the day after Halloween, all my pumpkins being replaced with Christmas trees, my cheap good candy replaced with candy canes, and my monsters and ghouls being replaced with elves (and not the cool kind like legolas). I beg of you large multinational corporations, let me have my thanksgiving! It’s one of my favorite holidays! When else to win money off my relatives with shut the box?

As the year goes on and people are waking up later in the morn’ to cram in that extra 10 minutes of sleep and showing up at Bartels with less time for breakfast, the dining hall lines are getting worse and worse. The longest part of my breakfast experience should be me sitting down and eating it, not having to stand in line waiting for food to be made and then served…and then moshing my way to get out.

Registration: It happens every single year, heck it even happens twice a year, so by now you would think the school would have found a way to have it so the Matrix server would not crash every registration period, which I know for a fact sends freshmen skittering to their RA’s in a panic like startled rabbits.

Twilight: vampires do not sparkle, get over yourselves.

Editor’s note: Editor-in-Chief Zack Rosen totally agrees with the Twilight thing.