Lent In The High Country - The Top Five Things People Are Giving Up
February 16th, 2024
BOONE - It’s that time of year everyone, where your dad gives up beer and your mom gives up red velvet cupcakes and both make sure everyone else is well aware. That’s right, it’s time for Lent! To welcome the forty days of solemnity and contemplativeness that most American Christians totally observe, the Rotten Appal Field Team has been hard at work interviewing students around campus to see what they are(n’t) giving up this year!
Honorable Mentions included… Social Media, Top Ramen, Cigarettes, Hope, and Overpriced Coffee.
5. Thrifting - For many, the bane of their wallet was the thrift. You can’t blame them. Nothing stirs up the wardrobe quite like a fit of cut jorts, a fishing hat, and a shirt advertising a donut eating contest from the nineties. But for many, buying ten junk shirts is too much; panhandler cosplay fits can wait at least forty days.
4. Drugs (unspecified) - An alarming amount of students listed that they were quitting “drugs.” From us to you, fair enough!
3. Exes - Of course it had to be on here. You can’t go an hour without hearing someone pining for someone who they left for a reason. To the hopeless romantics out there, stay strong! It’s only forty days without getting your rocks off.
2. Meat - Something wholesome! No complaints here; we wish all of you prospective vegans, vegetarians, and pescatarians the best finding affordable options in Boone!
1. Drugs (but for real this time) - Yeeeeeeesh. It seems that last year's forty days of temptation were too much for some. Best wishes this time around. Just remember not to think about your classes, your assignments, your student debt, your housing for next year, your next meal, that one internship you need to land, that one pissant who keeps bugging you, that one lecturer who you hate, your commute tomorrow, your commute today, the family you came to App to get away from….