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While the month of October commemorates, leaves are beginning to change color, pumpkin patches are flourishing and the inevitable first Moscow snow of the season awaits. But what else is […]
In an email from Torrey Lawrence, University of Idaho provost and executive vice president, he announced that UI will be observing Juneteenth. The university will close at all its locations on Monday, June 21 for the holiday. […]
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I lay writhing in bed on March 31, already apprehensive of what the morning awaits. A single bead of sweat trickles down my forehead. “Why,” you ask. The worst and […]
With COVID-19 persisting through the winter, health officials have told us to prepare for a dark cold season. This means many families are going to experience a very different Christmas compared to what they have done in past years.
I love the weeks after Thanksgiv-ing. Everything flies by in a blur of cookie-baking, cocoa-drinking and ornament-decorating events, brighten-ing the stressful weeks before finals. Of all the things that COVID-19 has taken from us, pictures with Santa in the ISUB should probably fall pretty low on the list. It just seems like we deserve a normal holiday season after this difficult year, but instead we’re being encour-aged to bunker down at home with our families until January.
Winter can be a really dismal time of year, especially for those who suffer from seasonal depression, also known as SAD. The short days, lack of decently warm outdoor activities, and financial stress from the upcoming holidays are all parts of winter that I dread every year.
Every fall my mind is taken over by thoughts of how much fun summer is and how sad I am that it’s gone, along with anxiety stemming from the shorter daytime hours and feeling like I’m less productive.
Let’s talk about Christmas. I’m here to tell you why it is the worst holiday ever created. Let’s move right on past the Christian exclusiveness, the mass marketing, the freedom of religion arguments and just get down to the brass tacks of it all. Christmas is the worst because of how obnoxious it is.
Christmas music is a topic that’s so divisive and anger inducing that I risk being mobbed at The Hub by muttering a few simple words—when can we listen to Christmas music? There are many schools of thought on this, and I’m going to walk you through all of them and reveal my own definitive holiday music schedule.
Looking back, 2020 has been one life-changing event after another with any sense of normalcy all but gone. This won’t change with Halloween.