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“Just Venmo me.” A common thing you hear now when people don’t want to do a separate the bill.

Venmo is an app that enables sending money easily to friends, family, and strangers. You do not need a credit card, wallet, or have to worry about cash. All you have to do is download the Venmo app and connect your debit card to it and you are good to go.

“Venmo is a very quick, convenient way to transfer money to whoever I need. Everything is just at my fingertips”, said Payton Leavitt a Senior at Morningside College.  “I also like going on Venmo after a weekend sometimes just to see who people were hanging out with and what they were doing but the descriptions of the transfers.”

This app is also like a social media platform. When you send money to your friends you put a description of what the money is going to. Your friends can scroll through the app and view people’s activities. (As shown below.)

Venmo allows you to pay and request money from friends. Users can have fun while doing the exchange of money by using emojis to describe what the payment is for. It takes the awkwardness out of asking back for money for paying the tab at the bar, or vise versa. 

“I use Venmo at least three times a week”, says Morgen Maher. “I think it is a fun easy way to transfer money to someone because of the little emojis you put on the message, and I don’t have to worry about cash.” 

If you have a lot of transfers coming through to you then you can sign up for a Venmo debit card. This is a covenant way to access your money so you do not have to keep transferring money to your account. 

“My Venmo card comes in handy a lot when I go out and only want to spend a certain amount. Or when people send me money and I don’t have time to transfer the money to my bank account I just use my Venmo card.” Said Morgen 

A lot of people ask what is the difference between Venmo and Paypal,  Venmo is restricted for personnel use and can be used as a digital wallet or a social media feed which is why more younger people like it because it is what they are used too. Paypal is normally used by businesses and charges fees for transactions. 

Hannah SIbbel, another Morningside College senior doesn’t have a Venmo account. “I always say I need to make one because that’s really all my friends use but I never get to it. I always get scared hooking things up to the bank account that I am not sure of and leaving me with uncertainty.”

Venmo’s target audience is 18-34 years old. This age frame is used to everything being convenient and having at their fingertips.

You can sign up for a Venmo account without having to hook up your bank information on the app. If you do thins you cant make transfers from your bank the money will just stay in your Venmo account. 

Venmo is a huge trend right now for millennials. Left your wallet at home but want to go out to eat with your friends? That’s okay just transfer money from your Venmo to your friends. Your friend forgot to pay you back from a night out? Request money on your Venmo to remind your friend. “Just Venmo me.”

Rivethead follows the memories of Ben Harper and his experience with the assembly line for General Motors.

Ben Hamper’s spent ten years in the ‘70s and 80’s on a General Motors assembly line in Flint, Michigan as a “shop rat” like his careless father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

Hamper told himself that he wouldn’t be an autoworker but soon after high school he got married and had a child, he needed a steady job and that’s what General Motors offered him.

Not only did Hamper work in the same place that his father did, but he also develops some of the same habits as well such as drugs, alcoholism, and slacking off at work.

At this assembly line Hamper thinks the work is boring, the bosses are stupid, and the workplace regulations are stupid and pointless. He thinks that all of it seems like a dead end. He doesn’t like the repetition of this job the most.

In the story, something that makes Ben keep going is that he made a lot of money and he pretty much did nothing for that money. He goes through his workdays because of the drugs and alcohol, and he doubles up on his really easy job with a partner of his so that they can alternate days working.

When he gets laid off of this job Jimmy Carter came up with a bonus program because of the unfair competition from the Japanese that ends up paying him more than when he was actually working.

This book is about a study of why the American industry had to be downsized. Hamper did not write the book because of this reason. He just wanted to show the GM was horrible and to make up feel the way he does.

This book to me was more about how Ben could get out of work and still get the money and mope around all day. Something that I wish this book would elaborate on is more information about the assembly line work and how the plant operated.

Something I really liked about the book is how it shows the worker’s point of view and showed the “shop life.”        

Overall, I think that it was an interesting book to read and makes me want to ask questions about the industry. I would give Rivethead Tales from the Assembly Line 3 out 5 stars.

Senior year. The year where everything is supposed to be smooth selling, all your hard work is about to pay off. BOOM. Coronavirus. 

I didn’t know what to expect from my senior year of college. I would just imagine going to all my classes, getting to go out with my friends, going on spring break, go to sporting events, and just simply enjoying my last year in college. The normal activities a senior would do.

That all changed when coronavirus hit. I will not get to experience what the past seniors underwent. And that makes me angry. 

It is no one in particulars fault that this happened, it is just bad timing. 

Instead of doing all those activities, we have to suffocate in masks, stay 6 feet from each other, and try not to be in large crowds. I never in a million years thought this is how my senior year would go. 

Not only do I feel bad for the seniors, I feel bad for the freshmen. This is the year where freshmen learn who their friend group is, go to your first college party, stay at the cafe and talk, and hang out and play games in the lobby of the dorm hall. 

With coronavirus, it is hard for people to meet new people let alone make friends with them. People also are not allowed to gather to mingle so it makes it hard for them to get out of their shells and encounter the “college experience”. 

I think it is essential for college students to get to encounter things that they normally wouldn’t experience on a daily basis at home. This is the time for us to find people we can relate to and be ourselves. 

These things are all very difficult to do, due to the coronavirus. This situation has made me angry in 2020.

“Just Venmo me.”

Venmo is an app that enables sending money easily to friends, family, and strangers. You do not need a credit card, wallet, or have to worry about cash. All you have to do is download the Venmo app and connect your debit card to it and you are good to go.

Venmo is a huge trend right now for millennials. Left your wallet at home but want to go out to eat with your friends? That’s okay just transfer money from your Venmo to your friends. Your friend forgot to pay you back form a night out? Request money on your Venmo to remind your friend.

Venmo allows you to pay and request money from friends. When using Venmo you have to put a description or an emoji when paying your friend or if they owe you money, it is an easier way instead of dealing with cash.

Holidays can be hard if you are the only one in the family that doesn’t have that special someone.

Sloane (Emma Roberts) is tired of her family always committing how single she is, and how she needs to find that special someone. Inline to return Christmas gifts at the mall, she meets Jackson (Luke Bracey). They start talking and both of them realize they don’t have dates for New Year’s Eve.

They both come up with this wonderful deal that they will be each other’s dates for the holidays so they will won’t lonely and stop having people bug them about being single. They decide it will be easier to just have a date for the holidays instead of going on actual dates and worry about commitment and the baggage that comes with an actual relationship.

This film reminds me of a typical Hallmark Christmas movie with more rated R sense to it. If you like a good, funny rom-com this is for you!

I would give Holidate a 3/5.

If you don’t have a date for the holidays take notes while watching, this movie might be helpful! 😉

To get a good glimpse on the basic of the movie 1:03-4:04.