Watching Your Wallet: Fair/Expo success Watching Your Wallet: Fair/Expo Success Any spare time I’ve had in the last week has been consumed by writing and rewriting a résumé and cover letter for an internship. Let me tell you, it...
Watching Your Wallet: Spring Break on a budget Watching Your Wallet Congratulations, Aggies- we’ve almost made it to March! If we can hold on through a few more weeks of bitter cold, smog and ice, it will be spring break – a gasp of fres...
Blue and White Debate Feb. 12 Landon Hemsley: Winter Olympics Yay! The Winter Olympics start today in Vancouver. Why should we care? Well, for one, the U.S. speed skating team made it there because of Stephen Colbert. ThatR...
Watching Your Wallet (and your weight) Growing up, my mom rarely came home from the grocery store with things like Oreos or Wheat Thins. Wait, let me rephrase that. My mom never came home from the grocery store with such delicious prep...
Watching Your Wallet: Decor on a Dime Flattened, discolored “elementary school-esqe” carpet. Blank, whitewashed, yet slightly yellowing, walls. DI furniture with who-knows-how-many years behind its belt. Grungy, dim lighti...
Blue and White Debate: Feb. 5 Men’s Basketball If you would have asked anybody before the season started if Utah State would be in the top three teams in the WAC , there would have been no doubt in their minds about Stew’s Cr...
Watching Your Wallet: Improving Yourself This week’s edition of “Watching Your Wallet” is a follow-up to last week’s “Time is Money,” and I will be expounding on the concept that our financial worth dep...
Blue and White Debate: Jan. 29 Connor Jones Men’s basketball One week into the WAC season, Utah State was 0-2 and way behind. Since then, the law of averages has prevailed and U-S-U now finds itself right back in famil...
It happens at the beginning of every semester. A whole new schedule begins and your classes change, your work schedule changes, your play time and free time changes, the time you go to bed change...
Blue and White debate 1/22 By Connor H. Jones 1. Thoughts on Aggie basketball All Aggie fans love Aggie basketball, right? I mean, if you didn't, could you honestly be a legit True-Blue Aggi...
I always feel a tinge of angst when the utility bill arrives each month. I anticipate my monthly rent, but always seem to forget about the additional $25, $30, sometimes $50 to heat, light, electri...
Next to streamers and a new calendar, making New Year's resolutions are the next big thing when ringing in a new year. Many are health-oriented: lose 10 pounds, run a marathon, eat healthier, cut s...
It's Christmas time, and that means pretty soon we'll need to buy gifts for our moms, dads, siblings, friends, cousins, grandmas and dogs. Now I'm not complaining; in fact, I love giving a good, th...
Of all the nasty, big, scary, confusing and icky financial matters in this world, I think insurance may top the list. Perhaps it was simply the way I was raised and perceived insurance. My dad has ...
Watching Your Wallet: Stashin' your Cash When all the Logan Lurker hub-bub was going on, I realized what a jackpot a college town would be for a thief. Thousands of apartments all in one place, full of laptops, iPods, social security car...
Backburner for March 10 Wednesday 3/10/10 Recyclemania, All Day Women’s Basketball, WAC Tournament MWHM Amelia Earhart Biography, TSC Auditorium, 12 p.m. USU Ecology Series, NR 105, 6 p.m. Love’s Labo...
OUR VIEW: Just get out of here There is nothing quite like the excitement you feel as you stand at the gas station filling the tank, cooler in the trunk and friends screaming “shotgun” in concert. The morning a road trip begins...
COLUMN: Ask Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, I am in need of a little advice. While preparing my living arrangements for this school year last spring, I readily jumped into an apartment contract with one of my roommates. L...
COLUMN: As a matter of faith As a kid I never really understood why I went to church. Sunday school was mostly a time for songs and games. Going out to play some days was nice, but we did that in regular school. Regular servi...