Damn you, entomologist George Hudson!

Deputy Editor Zack Abrams is a big fan of sunlight and thus not a big fan of Daylight Saving Time. Read his thoughts below. 

Winters are tough. Seasonal depression is at its height as it can heavily weight on your psyche having only a few hours of daylight where you’re not in class or in the library or sleeping through the morning. That’s why I was astonished to ascend from the bowels of Pupin Hall earlier this week after my LitHum class and see the sun… at 6 pm!

I had been accustomed to exiting my final class of the day in pure darkness. This felt like it was shortening my entire night; after dinner, it felt like bedtime, not free time with which I could get work done or relax. I’m not a morning person, so the shortened days felt even shorter considering that most of the daylight hours took place while I was still sleeping.

In a bizarre Act 3 plot twist that no one saw coming, Marco Rubio recently proposed legislation to make Daylight Saving time permanent, ending this ridiculous program that makes millennials sad and everybody else annoyed at having to fix their clocks two times a year. Rubio’s face turn from going to CNN to be yelled at while sheepishly supporting gun rights to national hero willing to make the hard choices in order to better America sets a precedent that we should all follow.

So get out there, take a photoshoot, bask in the sunny weather that will inevitably follow these ridiculous snowstorms, and appreciate the sun! Because before you know it, we have to fall back to the dark ages.