Old face, new position

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I cannot believe I’m old enough to be the editor-in-chief of The Transcript. I know it sounds silly, but I still think I’m 15 years old and in high school, not a 21-year-old junior in college. My high school paper consisted of three of us, which ultimately resulted in its demise upon our graduation.

I’ve wanted to be a journalist since I was in fourth grade when I first really watched the nightly news. I wanted to be the person who gave the news. I also wanted to be a veterinarian, but that is besides the point.

Ever since I found out it was possible to be a journalist, I tried to become one. I’ve written for every publication I could get my hands on. And when looking at colleges, I made sure there was a journalism program available, which is one of the reasons why I ended up at Ohio Wesleyan University.

I cannot believe I’m at the helm of a publication that has shaped my college career for the better. Without The Transcript, I would wander aimlessly through campus without any direction whatsoever.

The Transcript has been a part of my life even before I enrolled at OWU. When I visited potential colleges, I would read each of their newspapers. And through The Transcript, I found out one of my camp friends was the daughter of one of my dad’s work friends.

I realized it was such a small world, all through this publication. All the other schools I looked at had publications, but none were of the quality of the Transcript. Nor did they have that connection like the The Transcript did.

I joined The Transcript when I was a nervous and unsure freshman. The first meeting I went to, I was intimidated by the people who surrounded me in that computer lab.

They all seemed like such journalists and like they knew what they were doing, and they would see right through my charade. I wanted to be as involved as possible, and I wrote any chance I got.

Sure, I wasn’t an amazing writer, but slowly my writing improved and I became more self-confident. With the help of my fellow reporters, I knew what questions to ask when interviewing subjects.

And those people who intimidated me with their reporting skills became such an integral part of my life. I cannot imagine them not being in my life, and I’m grateful I spoke up in those meetings.

My predecessors are among my closest friends and confidants; they are the people who made my passion for journalism grow even stronger. They push me to be a better writer, editor and person. They encourage me to branch out and tackle stories that I would normally not take on. And without them, my love for writing would not be like it is now.

I want to encourage any scared freshman that wants to write to come to our meetings. I want them to have the amazing experience and meet people who will change their lives. Don’t be intimidated like I was; you’ll find your groove and become the writer you aspire to be.

To me, The Transcript is much more than a publication. It’s a way of life; it’s a passion. It’s what you stay up all night working on, what you stress out about, what makes you feel proud of yourself.

As cliché as this sounds, I cannot imagine my college career without The Transcript. I know I would not be the jaded yet optimistic person I am.

New goals for familiar faces

Juniors Emma Drongowski and Jerry Lherisson, WCSA Vice President and President. Photo courtesy of Emma Drongowski.
Juniors Emma Drongowski and Jerry Lherisson, WCSA Vice President and President. Photo courtesy of Emma Drongowski.

Every new Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs (WCSA) administration has grand plans for their tenure, and this administration is no exception. President Jerry Lherrison and Vice President Emma Drongowski, both juniors, have ambitious plans and are willing to tackle them head on.

Their platform centered on three main ideas: the marketing of resources on campus, working with the university to build better relationships with freshmen and increasing sustainability on campus. One of their main goals is to create a welcome packet for every incoming freshman, so that they would be better acquainted with WCSA and everything it provides, Lherrison said.

“Every president has new things they want to do, every vice president has new things they want to do,” Lherrison said. “So what you get are a bunch of things you want to get done
what we want to do is continue [the previous administration’s work] but also include things like the work with the freshmen.”

Both Drongowski and Lherrison want to increase student group involvement within WCSA. Previously, WCSA encouraged ex-officio members of groups to come to WCSA meetings, but both Drongowski and Lherrison said very few groups participated or sent representatives.

“Engaging clubs and having them recognize that WCSA does more than just fund them is important to us, because oftentimes clubs don’t realize we have other resources available to them, like leadership support, organizational support
They basically come to us when they need money, and the relationship can be strained between WCSA and clubs and organizations if the only interaction they have with us is if we reject their funding,” Drongowski said.

The new treasurer, sophomore Graham Littlehale will also take an active role with student groups. He is planning on increasing budget management system (BMS) training, which is required in order to apply for funding. Instead of having only one session, he is increasing it to two sessions a semester, which allows for more training opportunities for the groups.

“We would see students send in budget requests but not attend BMS, and obviously they couldn’t receive funding and would be very angry about it. It’s just how it works, we have to inform them and have a proper session, and they would have to attend it,” Littlehale said.

Before funding requests are due, Littlehale is planning to meet with the executive boards of clubs and groups to answer any financial questions they may have to make the process smoother for everyone involved.

WCSA has regular meetings with the university’s administration, also known as Archway. They meet from once to as much as three times a month, and discuss issues involving the community and “OWU as a macroscopic view to be better,” as Lherrison puts it. Drongowski and Lherrison attend the meetings, and are planning on putting in a rotating chair for other members of WCSA to be a part of this process.

Drongowski and Lherrison also spoke of the possibility of the administration having focused meetings, open to the entire student body to discuss a specific topic. They said the administration brought up the idea and are very open to it.

One new initiative both Drongowski and Lherrison are very excited about is their push to get rid of all plastic water bottles on campus and moving towards reusable water bottles. WCSA recently purchased six new hydration stations and will be installed this semester in residence halls.

“It is in the university’s long-term plans to have them [hydration stations] installed in every building and have upkeep,” Lherrison said. “We wanted to foot the bill at first to show that we really wanted to push this thing forward, but it is well within their budget.”

Both Merrick Hall and the Simpson-Querrey Fitness Center will have the hydration stations.

Drongowski cautions this is still in the very early stages of development, and many of the logistics still need to be figured out.

“I think we would be in the first school in Ohio to do so,” Drongowski said. “As an organization, we are very excited to investigate it.”

Global Grab: Hong Kong escalates, UN talks climate change

Protestors gather on the Admiralty Bridge in Hong Kong. Photo: Wikimedia
Protestors gather on the Admiralty Bridge in Hong Kong. Photo: Wikimedia

The Issue: Hong Kong Protests

At first, people thought the protests in Hong Kong would be short lived and relatively peaceful. However, the most recent developments have proven otherwise. On Monday, protestors tried and failed to surround government offices, and police raided the protestors’ biggest street camp. One of the major questions about these ongoing protests, according to the New York Times, is “how much longer the Hong Kong government would tolerate hundreds to tents only a stone’s throw from the city’s administrative and legislative complex(.)”

On Sunday, hundreds of protestors pushed past police lines and blocked traffic on main roads, according to the Associated Press. The police arrested at least 40 protestors, the Washington Post reported, and 17 police officers were injured during the clashes; the police senior superintendent would not “let the road
remain blocked.” The AP also reported that “protestors said they were taking action to force a response from Hong Kong’s government, which has made little effort to address their demands that it scrap a plan by China’s Communist leaders to use a panel of Beijing-friendly elites to screen candidates for Hong Kong’s leader inaugural 2017 elections.”

The protests began more than two months ago over election rules imposed by Beijing, the Washington Post said. Hong Kong’s chief executive, Leung Chun-ying told reporters that “police had so far been tolerant, but would now ‘enforce the law without hesitation’ to end the protests that have paralyzed parts of the Asian financial hub,” according to the Post.

The Issue: Climate Change

United Nations negotiators are meeting in South America this week to try and make a global pact to halt climate change, according to the New York Times. They say “without a deal
the world could eventually become uninhabitable for humans.”

This meeting comes a few weeks after an announcement by President Barack Obama and China’s president Xi Jinping of “commiting the world’s two largest carbon polluters to cuts in their emissions,” the Times reported.

According to Al Jazeera the deal between the United States and China would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emission over the next 15 years: “The U.S. part of the plan calls for a 26 to 28 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emission by 2025 based on 2005 levels. That’s a big increase from Obama’s earlier goal of reducing emission 17 percent by 2020.”

The BBC reported 195 nations have committed to “finalizing a new climate pact in Paris by 2015’s end.” The BBC says this process has been helped by recent developments in climate change, including the U.S./China announcement.

Global Grab: ISIL beheads fifth captive, Japan’s economy shrinks

The flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Image: Wikimedia
The flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Image: Wikimedia

The Issue: ISIL

Over the weekend, the Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of Peter Kassig, an American aid worker. He was the fifth Western hostage the group has killed and the third American, according to the Washington Post. The New York Times reported he was beheaded in retaliation for airstrikes carried out by the United States in Iraq and Syria. President Barack Obama and the United States government confirmed the identity of Kassig and the authenticity of the video. “Mr. Kassig was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group,” Obama said in a statement.

Kassig was captured in eastern Syria in October 2013 while traveling in an ambulance, the Washington Post reported. During his captivity, Kassig converted to Islam while sharing a cell with a devout Syrian Muslim and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman. Kassig founded an aid group to help Syrians that were in the middle of the country’s civil war, according to the Associated Press.

The AP also reported Kassig served in the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He was captured doing relief work with  Special Emergency Response and Assistance, a group he founded after his discharge from the Army.

Now, the BBC reported, “Western intelligence officials are trying to identify Islamic State militants seen in the video…using facial recognition software to identify those involved in the mass beheading, matching their real names and origins to their adopted battle names.” It’s reported one of the militants is French and another is British.

The Islamic State is currently holding two women, one a 26-year-old American, according to the Washington Post.

The Issue: Japan’s Economy

While the rest of the world is recovering from the devastating 2008 recession, it seems as though Japan has unexpectedly fallen back into one in the third financial quarter, the New York Times reported.

Japanese cabinet officials said the economy shrunk by 1.6 percent in the three months to the end of September, compared with a year earlier, the Washington Post reported, the second straight quarterly drop. “Economists had been expecting the statistics to show that the economy had grown by 2 percent in the quarter.”

There is a possibility of an economic stimulus package, according to Reuters, but Japan’s Economy Minister said it would “be heard to craft an exceptionally big package because of the need for financial discipline.”

Reuters also reported some economists are thinking growth could improve in the October-December quarter.

Global Grab: Election edition

This week, the Global Grab is going national, in honor of the Midterm elections. Republicans picked up 13 House seats, while also picking up seven Senate seats. To get the majority for the Senate, the Republicans needed to pick up six. So that means they’re firmly the majority. Many Democratic-leaning states, such as Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois, picked up Republican governors. Politico is calling it the “Red Dawn.”

Here are the rundowns of some major races around the country.

Ohio: Republicans took all of the state’s highest ranking offices, with incumbnent John Kasic winning against Ed FitzGerald with 64 percent of the vote. To make things worse for the dems, the chair of the Democratic Party of Ohio, Chris Redfern, resigned after he lost his race for the 89th House district  seat. The repubulicans also took home two state supreme court spots.

New Hampshire: Democrat Jeanne Shaheen held onto her Senate seat, beating Scott Brown. His name may sound familiar, since he was a senator in Massachusetts before being ousted by current Senator Elizabeth Warren. There was a lot of controversy surrounding Brown’s latest run, since he wasn’t from New Hampshire. He qualified as a resident of the state because he has a vacation home there.

Kentucky: Another contentious Senate race took place in Kentucky, between Senate minority, now majority, leader Mitch McConnell and a new rising star in the Democratic Party, Alison Lundergan Grimes. Up until the election, the polls were very close, but McConnell had the edge. It turned out he did, as he won the seat 55.74 percent to Lundergan Grimes’ 41.19 percent.

Louisiana: With eight people on the ballot and one candidate needing to get over 50 percent of the vote, it was bound to be hard for any candidate to win Louisiana’s Senate seat.

However, early in the night, it was decided that there will be a two candidate runoff between Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy, which is supposed to take place on December 6. That means we won’t know who the majority in the Senate will be until December at the earliest.

North Carolina: This Senate race is considered to be the most expensive of the 2014 midterm elections, if not ever. Incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan lost to Republican Thom Tillis by two points. Many Democrats were hopeful, even after the polls closed, that Hagan could pull out a victory, but Tillis thwarted those hopes.

Wisconsin: In one of the most contentious gubernatorial races in the country, incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker won his third election in four years. This was going to be a challenging race, since Walker was quite unpopular in Wisconsin due to abolishing unions, which led to a recall race in 2012 that he ultimately won. By holding on to the governorship, this puts Walker as a potentially strong presidential candidate in 2016.

Colorado: In another closely watched Senate races, it was another victory for the Republicans. Republican Rep. Cory Gardner beat Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. It was expected to be a close one, even though polls had Gardner winning within the margin of error.

As of the writing of this piece, the gubernatorial race in Colorado is much too close to call. Democrat incumbent John Hickenlooper was leading Republican Bob Beauprez 48 percent to 47.3 percent, with 92 percent of the votes counted, according to Talking Points Memo. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler said there is a strong possibility the race could go to a recount.

However, voters in Colorado rejected the “personhood” ballot measure, which would have granted “personhood rights to developing fetuses from the moment of fertilization,” according to the Huffington Post. Colorado rejected the amendment 67 percent to 37 percent, the third time they voted down a “personhood” measure in the past few years.

Florida: This race was a strange one. It includes Charlie Crist, a former governor of Florida. When he was governor last time, he was a Republican, but in 2014, he ran as a Democrat. However, incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott held on and beat Crist in a close race.

In other news in Florida, the medicinal marijuana ballot initiative failed to get the required 60 percent “Yes” vote, so the measure failed.

Voter ID laws damage American democracy

Photo: Wikimedia
Photo: Wikimedia

Voting is exciting for me. Odd, I know, but I’ve loved it ever since my mom took me into the voting booth in 1996, when Bill Clinton, Bob Dole and Ross Perot comprised the field for president. Granted, I probably shouldn’t have been allowed in, but my mom was heavily pregnant with my sister and I was only three years old. Ever since that experience, I looked forward to voting.

I remember the first time I voted. I had just turned 18, and I voted in some judicial race. I didn’t know the candidates (which I’m ashamed to say) but I still voted because I had been looking forward to it for 15 years.

However, some people do not have the luxury to vote. Wait, what? I thought the right to vote was guaranteed by the United States Constitution! Well, you thought wrong. In recent years many states, including Ohio, have enforced voter identification laws. This means in order to register to vote or even vote, people need to show a valid form of identification.

For some people, that’s not a big deal — there are driver’s licenses or state-issued IDs. For others, it’s quite hard to obtain those pieces of identification. They need to take off of work and go to the DMV and wait in line, sometimes for hours, in order to get it.

These laws target low-income, minority or elderly voters, who happen to vote Democratic. And as of October 13, there is some form of a voter identification law in 31 states.

I recently had a run-in with this law. I still vote in Wisconsin, and there’s a pretty big election coming up. Being in Washington, D.C., this semester, I filed for an absentee ballot in the middle of August. However, I still haven’t received it, even though one of my friends had.

I called my town hall and found out I couldn’t get it until I sent in a copy of my identification. Embarrassingly enough, I didn’t know Wisconsin had a voter ID law. I was shocked and furious. Luckily, the woman was nice enough to tell me I could just email a picture of my ID and then my ballot would be on its way.

I hung up, and then called my friend to vent about this unfair law and how I almost wasn’t able to vote. Then, just my luck, Wisconsin’s voter ID law was struck down they next day. I was very happy, to say the least, but I couldn’t help but think — what if I didn’t call my town hall and the law wasn’t struck down? I wouldn’t have been able to vote in this election, which will shape Wisconsin’s future.

The point is this: in the United States, everyone is guaranteed the right to vote. But some states are trying to make it harder for certain groups of people to vote. What kind of democracy does that make us?

Global Grab: Ottawa recovers, troops leave Afghani province

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where Canadian corporal Michael Cirillo was shot. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa, where Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed Canadian corporal Nathan Cirillo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Issue: Ottawa Terrorist Attack

A terrorist attack rocked Canada’s capital and catapulted more investigations of terrorism in Canada. On Oct. 22, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau opened fire at Canada’s National War Memorial and entered the nearby Parliament building.

Zehaf-Bibeau killed corporal Nathan Cirillo, who was guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, before he was killed himself. Zehaf-Bibeau was killed by Canadian sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers. This was the second deadly assault on a uniformed member of Canada’s armed forces within three days, the New York Times reported. A few days before, there was a hit-and-run car crash that killed a soldier and wounded another in Quebec. Later, authorities named it an act of terror.

According to Reuters, a Canadian Parliament committee is set to hear from two top security officials about threats facing Canada. Reuters also said Zehaf-Bibeau made a video of himself “just before the attack that contained evidence that he was driven by ideological and political motives.” The BBC reports that Canadian authorities said “the gunman was radicalized but had no ties to Middle Eastern Islamist extremists.”  Zehaf-Bibeau had converted to Islam, is from suburban Montreal and has dealt with drug abuse and mental health problems, the New York Times reported. He also has a criminal history.

During the attack, Parliament was locked down, but public tours have since reopened.

The Issue: Leaving Afghanistan

Combat operations have ended in the Afghani province of Helmand. United States Marines and British troops have left, which ends a “decade-long struggle to keep a major Taliban stronghold and the region’s vast opium production in check,” the New York Times said. According to the Washington Post, the province is now “almost exclusively in the hands of Afghan security forces.”

The withdrawal and base closure is one of the largest operations in the winding down of the international combat mission in Afghanistan, according to Reuters. The Washington Post reported the withdrawal “marks another step in the wider disengagement of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.” The Washington Post also said British forces were largely in control of Helmand in the early years of the war, but in 2008 President Obama sent tens of thousands of American Marines to the province. At the peak of U.S. deployment, about 20,000 Marines were stationed at Helmand.

About 400 British troops and more than 350 Marines have been killed in Helmand.

Global Grab: Hong Kong protests continue, Europe audits banks

Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Photo: Wikimedia
Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Photo: Wikimedia

The Issue: Hong Kong Protests

The protests for democracy in Hong Kong are still alive and well. They started about three weeks ago with a student rally, and grew to mass protests for “great democracy” in Hong Kong, according to the Associated Press. Since the protests started, they have grown bigger, and dangerous, and there is no end in sight.

The protestors want fully democratic elections, and were angered that the Chinese government wanted to vet potential candidates for the 2017 polls, the BBC says. There are scheduled talks between the student protestors and the Chinese government in the coming week, but violent protests have erupted. Reuters is calling this the worst political crisis in Hong Kong “since Britain handed the free-wheeling city back to China in 1997(.)”

Now, the BBC reports there have been charges of “outside involvement” in the protests. Hong Kong’s leader, CY Leung, is accusing “external forces” of involvement, and called the protests “out of control, even for the organizers.” However, student organizers and protestors have “denied any outside involvement” in the protests. The BBC also posited that “China could be making allegations of interference to discourage foreign governments from supporting the protests.”

Authorities “have been inconsistent both in handling the students’ call for political reform and in tactics to clear the streets,” the AP reported. None of the sides are sure what will result from the protests, and there doesn’t seem to be any sort of consensus.

The Issue: Europe’s Economy

It’s been about five years since the Great Recession that decimated the financial markets, but there still hasn’t been a full recovery, particularly in Europe.

The leader of the financial sector in Europe is Germany, who was the pioneer of austerity, a policy model of reducing spending and the increase of frugality within a financial sector. Thanks to Germany, many countries in the European Union were bailed out and their economies saved.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s finance minister, said the country must “increase its investment to improve competitiveness, but not at the expense of higher debt,” the BBC reports. Those comments came after a horrible market week, which signaled a possible weakening of the German economy.

The weakening of the German economy comes after the German government cut its economic growth forecast from 1.8 percent to 1.2 percent, the BBC said. Along with that news, a health check of Europe’s top banks by the European Central Bank (ECB) found that “in the seven months since it began, the ECB had to shoot down countless pleas from banks and national supervisors for special treatment,” Reuters reports. The health check will also say which of Europe’s 130 biggest banks have “valued their assets properly and which have not, as well as whether banks need more capital to withstand another economic crash,” Reuters said.

Global Grab: Ebola arrives stateside, ISIL kills fourth hostage

The Ebola virus has killed about 2,100 people in West Africa. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The Ebola virus has killed about 2,100 people in West Africa. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Issue: Ebola

The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in the United States. A man from Liberia tested positive for the disease in Dallas, and the BBC reports that 50 people the man, Thomas Duncan, had been in contact with are being monitored for signs of the virus. The only other cases in the country were of medical professionals being flown here for treatment.

There have been other suspected cases of the disease besides Duncan. The New York Times said there was a suspected case in Washington, D.C., where a patient who had been in Nigeria was isolated at Howard University Hospital but was eventually determined to not have the virus. Another man who flew from Brussels to Newark Airport went to the hospital with Ebola-like symptoms.

With this influx of Ebola cases, the Obama administration “believe(s) that screening of passengers in the affected countries in Africa, by taking their temperature and requesting information about their activities, is the best way to prevent the virus from spreading to the United States,” the New York Times reported.

It has been rumored Duncan knew he had the disease and did not file the proper documentation while flying from Liberia. According to the BBC, Liberian officials said they would “prosecute Mr. Duncan for lying on an Ebola questionnaire form.”

The BBC reports the disease has killed an estimated 3,400 people in West Africa. There have been 7,178 confirmed cases, most in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The Issue: ISIL

On Friday, ISIL released yet another video of militants apparently beheading a hostage, this time a British man named Alan Henning. This is the fourth hostage the group has killed.

Henning was a former taxi driver in Britain who was “moved by the plight of the Syrian people,” the New York Times said. The BBC reports Henning was on his fourth aid mission to Syria in December, when he was kidnapped minutes after arriving in the county.

Along with the beheading, the militants threatened American hostage Peter Kassig, whom National Security Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden confirmed the militants were holding, the Associated Press reported.

Kassig, a former Army Ranger, was travelling through Syria working for the relief organization he founded, Special Emergency Response and Assistance, when he was captured in October of 2013, the AP reports. While in captivity, Kassig converted to Islam. He now goes by Abdul-Rahman.

For a Bishop living in Washington, life away from OWU just isn’t the same

I miss Ohio Wesleyan. There, I admitted it. I’m doing a semester in Washington, D.C., for the Wesleyan in Washington program, and I didn’t expect to feel this way so soon.

I love my school, don’t get me wrong, but I was feeling like I needed to get off campus for a bit. I guess it’s the junior year itch.

Photo: Wikimedia
Photo: Wikimedia

But when I check my email and see the OWU Daily, my heart races.

I need to know what’s going on on campus. I ask my boyfriend and my friends on campus for gossip, or just what’s going on. They always report back with, “There’s nothing interesting going on.”

Well, maybe not to you, but to me, even if there’s a duck in the fountain at lunch, that’s exciting to me.

It’s a weird feeling going from student to adult in a short time span. I now understand how graduates must feel. Every day I need to make my all of meals, clean and just be an adult. I can’t run to Thomson and buy food with Monopoly money; I actually spend real money on food!

I now understand the hassle of a commute, especially when your trains are majorly delayed. I also know the feeling of FOMO (fear of missing out) by seeing Facebook pictures or events of goings-on at OWU. When people send me pictures of what’s going on at OWU, I just reply with pictures of taxidermied lions at the Smithsonian.

It’s weird not being with my newspaper family, with whom I spend most of my time. It’s weird not seeing the familiar faces down the JAYwalk and seeing Linda at University Hall for my iced mocha with extra chocolate. I don’t even know who the freshmen are. I’ll arrive back in January completely clueless, like a lost puppy who just wants some guidance and a treat.

Even though I miss being on campus, I would not trade this experience for the world. It’s a once in a lifetime experience, and I love every moment of it. I love D.C., I love my job and I just like pretending to be an adult. D.C. is an amazing place to be, and I have everything at my disposal. But there’s nothing like OWU.

Come January, my life as an adult ends, and my life as a student resumes. I already know as I’m walking to classes in -40 degrees Farenheit, I’ll wish I were in D.C. But you can’t have it both ways, and I’m just realizing it now.