EB’s Ups and Downs for the first two weeks of the semester.

We recently held a caf deck event where readers could write down their winter wishes and pick up our latest stickers. Thank you to everyone who came out! We hope all of our winter wishes come true! Without further ado, here are the winter wishes . . .

I go to movie theaters a lot. According to Megan Brenan, “U.S. adults saw an average of 1.4 movies in a theater” in the past year. This statistic is from 2021, so the numbers were probably still being influenced by the pandemic, but even before the pandemic, the average American watched only 4.8 movies per year in a movie theater. Just in 2023, I have watched sixty-six movies, and twenty of those were in a movie theater. Like I said, I go to movie theaters a lot . . .

It’s finally November which means it’s officially National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo! If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it’s when writers from around the world try to write 50,000 words in a month. If a writer reaches 50,000 words, then they are considered a winner of NaNoWriMo; it has nothing to do with when a writer finishes or how many writers have won before them. The goal of NaNoWriMo is not to compete with other writers but to develop a writing habit, progress in a new project, and write in a community.